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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 Editorial, The Washington Examiner | 05.15.2015

Television actress Sofia Vergara and her ex-fiancé are tussling over what should happen to embryos they created through in vitro...

By Robert Pear, The New York Times | 05.14.2015

WASHINGTON — The federal government opened the door to a new era of genetic medicine on Thursday by introducing a...

By Julia Belluz and Steven Hoffman, Vox | 05.13.2015
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In his book Derailed, about his fall from academic grace, the Dutch psychologist Diederik Stapel explained his...

By Ryan Clarke and James Hyun, Tech Crunch | 05.13.2015

[For full original article with diagrams and tables, see here.]

Editor’s note: Ryan Clarke is a biochemistry PhD candidate...

By Jeantine Lunshof, Nature World View | 05.12.2015

Gene editing is a hot topic following a flurry of interest in the use of CRISPR tools to modify human...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 05.11.2015

Call it a ‘gut print’. The collective DNA of the microbes that colonize a human body can uniquely identify someone...

By Nikhil Swaminathan, Aljazeera America | 05.11.2015
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In late January, President Barack Obama announced what some have called a moonshot.

The $215 million Precision Medicine...

By Dr Calum MacKellar, BioNews | 05.11.2015
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The short article by Robin Lovell-Badge entitled 'Editing human embryos' (see BioNews 799) addressing the work of...