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During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Maddie Stone, Gizmodo | 06.10.2015
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Twenty five years ago, Michael Crichton captured our imaginations with the crazy idea that scientists might one day...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 06.10.2015
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When Geoffrey Ling talks about the future of technology, his ideas go flying around the room like a...

By Loretta Houlahan, The Age [Australia] | 06.10.2015
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In a departure  from the usual IVF miracle baby stories, much attention has been devoted recently to IVF...

By Alexandra Harney and Ben Hirschler, Reuters | 06.09.2015
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Years of pouring money into its laboratories, wooing scientists home from overseas and urging researchers to publish and...

By Margaret Somerville, The Globe and Mail | 06.08.2015
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The human germline is the genetic essence of human life. It’s the genes passed on from generation to...
By Michael Wells-Greco, BioNews | 06.08.2015
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On 21 May 2015 the Swiss Federal Court (1) refused to register a male couple - who are...

By Matthew Thomas, BioNews | 06.08.2015
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The Business of Genetic Ancestry

BBC Radio 4, Tuesday 26 May 2015

Presented by Dr Adam Rutherford...

By Anna Azvolinsky, The Scientist | 06.08.2015
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Most novel mutations in an individual are thought to originate in the germline. Other mutations, somatic mosaic mutations...