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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.

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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 Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 03.31.2015
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When billions of dollars are at stake in scientific research, researchers quickly learn that optimism sells.

A new...

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science Magazine | 03.30.2015
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Derived from bacteria, mitochondria are our cells’ energy-producing powerhouses. Now, a Massachusetts company is convinced that these microscopic...

By Dan Vergano, BuzzFeed News | 03.30.2015
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Pentagon’s $2.9 billion technology research arm, plans to invest heavily...

By Jeffrey Marlow, Wired | 03.30.2015
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Over the last several decades, DNA – the genetic material of life as we know it – has...

By David Ewing Duncan, The Daily Beast | 03.30.2015
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“We have within our grasp the technology to change evolution. This could change the course of biological life.”...

By Nils Hoppe, BioNews | 03.30.2015
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One of the legally and ethically problematic issues regularly debated in the context of biobanks and tissue repositories...

By Jeffrey Marlow, Wired | 03.30.2015
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Over the last several decades, DNA – the genetic material of life as we know it – has...

By Sheila Burke, Associated Press | 03.28.2015
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Nashville prosecutors have made sterilization of women part of plea negotiations at least four times in the past...