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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 Anastasia Moloney, Reuters | 06.03.2015
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Government health workers spent hours going from door to door to coax, cajole...

By Eric S. Lander, New England Journal of Medicine | 06.03.2015

Fifty years ago, microbiologists sparked the recombinant-DNA revolution with the discovery that bacteria have innate immune systems based on restriction...

By Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 06.03.2015
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Three years ago, Bruce Conklin came across a method that made him change the course of his lab...

By Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 06.03.2015
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Three years ago, Bruce Conklin came across a method that made him change the course of his lab...

By Christopher Simmons, California Newswire | 06.03.2015
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A closely watched bill by Assemblyman Mike Gatto (D-Glendale) to strengthen notice requirements for the storage of newborn...

By Jonathan Thomas, The Stem Cellar | 06.01.2015
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CIRM’s mission is to accelerate the delivery of stem cell treatments to patients with unmet medical needs. In...

By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 06.01.2015
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Invitae, the bold little company run by genomics veteran Randy Scott, today announced that it will offer any...

By William Ledger, The Age [Australia] | 05.31.2015
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All too frequently, I am faced with breaking bad news to disappointed couples in their early 40s who...