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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...

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

By Editorial, The Lancet | 06.06.2015
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Last week, the White House decreed that human germline gene editing in biomedical research is discontinued in the...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 06.06.2015
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The latest issue of the American Journal of Bioethics examines the topic of new reproductive technologies and genetic...

By Jo Best, Tech Republic | 06.05.2015
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Dan Lane has always had a keen interest in the next big thing. He owned an early set...

By Sharon Begley and Caroline Humer, Reuters | 06.05.2015
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Amazon.com Inc is in a race against Google Inc to store data on human DNA, seeking both bragging...

By Adam Wernick, PRI | 06.05.2015
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“Scientists in general are awful at communicating their work to the general public,” says Jorgensen, the director of...

By Helen Thomson, New Scientist | 06.04.2015

For the first time, scientists have discovered a mechanism in humans that could explain how your lifestyle choices may impact...

By Robert Klitzman, Huffington Post | 06.04.2015
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To help their soldiers on the front, Nazi physicians sawed off the limbs of concentration camp prisoners and...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.03.2015
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The Human Genome Project was one of mankind’s greatest triumphs. But the official gene map that resulted in...