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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 Glosswitch, New Statesman | 05.22.2015
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Surrogacy is not a new idea; indeed, there is a precedent in the book of Genesis, with the...

By Carey Goldberg, WBUR | 05.22.2015
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It was standing room only in the Harvard Medical School auditorium last week, the...

By Robert Pollack, Science | 05.22.2015
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In calling their perspective “A prudent path forward for genomic engineering and germline gene modification” (3 April, p...

By Michael Cook, MercatorNet | 05.21.2015
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The single most controversial development in biology in 2015 is a relatively cheap, easily manipulated technology for modifying...

By David Dobbs, BuzzFeed | 05.21.2015
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“Success in sight: The eyes have it!” Thus the scientific journal Gene Therapy greeted the news, in 2008...

By Neil Shah, Wall Street Journal | 05.20.2015
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Americans are postponing parenting and using fertility treatments to get pregnant. So what’s the financial toll? A new...

By Chris Kaposy, Impact Ethics | 05.19.2015
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The journal Clinical Proteomics recently published an article describing a new experimental prenatal test for Down syndrome that...

By Azeen Ghorayshi, BuzzFeed News | 05.19.2015
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On Tuesday afternoon, roughly 135 scientists, bioethicists, philosophers, lawyers, and policymakers from 25 countries wrapped up the first-ever...