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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 Louis Doré, The Independent | 05.31.2015
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An NHS fertility doctor has called on the Education Secretary to include fertility lessons in the national curriculum...

By Mirah Riben, Dissident Voice | 05.30.2015
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The despair of wanting a child you are unable to produce naturally has led to a multi-billion dollar...

By Ellie Kincaid, Business Insider [Australia] | 05.29.2015
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“Test tube babies” are not that rare these days.

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that...

By Spencer S. Hsu, Washington Post | 05.29.2015
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The FBI has notified crime labs across the country that it has discovered errors in data used by...

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 05.29.2015
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Seven years ago, Congress prohibited employers and insurers from discriminating against people with genes that increase their risks...

By Alexander Capron, The New York Times | 05.28.2015
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There is a precedent for establishing internationally agreed-upon limits for new science, though it can be hard to...

By Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters | 05.27.2015
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A group of international researchers is making the case that genetic tests that look for multiple hereditary genes...

By Gregor Wolbring, Impact Ethics | 05.27.2015
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Human germline genetic modification, which involves making genetic changes that will be passed on to future generations, is...