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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 Heidi Ledford, Nature | 04.15.2015
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The advent of three-dimensional (3D) printing has generated a swell of interest in artificial organs meant to replace...

By Max Gorynski, Shout Out UK | 04.14.2015
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The need for control is as strong in humans as the need for love and the need for...

By Silvia Camporesi, The Huffington Post | 04.14.2015
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"What are the moral implications of genome editing?" is the question that has been posed by...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 04.14.2015
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The state of California is launching a US$3-million precision-medicine project. The effort, announced on 14 April, will draw...

By Judith Ireland, Sydney Morning Herald | 04.14.2015
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Australian officials could do almost nothing to stop Australian parents from abandoning their baby son, born through surrogacy...

By Russell Saunders, The Daily Beast | 04.14.2015
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Let’s say you have a whole lot of money.

Let’s say you have so much money that, even...

By Kari Paul, Motherboard | 04.14.2015
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A Craigslist ad thoug​ht to be covert advertising or “viral marketing for the upcoming Fantastic Four movie” is...

By Noelle Phillips, The Denver Post | 04.14.2015
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A bipartisan bill has been introduced that would require mandatory DNA testing on people convicted of eight misdemeanors...