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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 Patricia J. Williams, The Nation | 04.03.2015
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For those unaware of how much biotechnology is changing the very nature of human identity, now is the...

By Jenny Rood, The Scientist | 04.03.2015
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On April 15, 2014, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) awarded the first patent for use the...

By Bernadette Tansey, Xconomy | 04.02.2015
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Caribou Biosciences, one of the biotech startups working to advance a much-watched new technology for precise gene...

By Heidi Ledford, Nature News | 04.01.2015
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A tweak to a technique that edits DNA with pinpoint precision has boosted its ability to correct defective...

By Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters | 04.01.2015
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A Roche blood test to screen fetuses for Down syndrome worked far better than standard prenatal screening tests...

By Victoria Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.31.2015
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Kaiser Permanente is about to begin what is believed to be the largest genetic research project ever conducted...

By Anthony Wrigley and Ainsley Newson, The Conversation | 03.31.2015
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The ability to precisely and accurately change almost any part of any genome, even in complex species such...

By Virginia Hughes, BuzzFeed News | 03.31.2015
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A medical research study launched Tuesday aims to screen the genes of at least 20,000 people. Part of...