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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 C. Simone Fishburn, BioCentury | 03.26.2015
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Once CRISPR catapulted gene editing to the forefront of DNA-based technology, it was only a matter of time...

By Misti Ault Anderson, The blog of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues | 03.26.2015
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The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues today released Gray Matters: Topics at the Intersection of...

By Beverly Merz, Harvard Health Blog | 03.26.2015
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President Obama’s announcement of a Precision Medicine Initiative was one of the few items in this year’s State...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 03.26.2015

Angelina Jolie Pitt's decision to have her ovaries surgically removed, which the actress and director detailed in The New York...

By Alexandra Witze, Nature | 03.26.2015

When NASA astronaut Scott Kelly launches on a one-year mission to the International Space Station on 28 March, he will...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.25.2015

The company, DeCode Genetics, based in Reykjavík, says it has collected full DNA sequences on 10,000 individuals. And because...

By Hussain Hazzazi and Ayman Al-Saidalani, Saudi Gazette | 03.24.2015
JEDDAH — Around 165,000 engagements were broken off in the past year after health checkups revealed genetic incompatibilities, according to...
By Julia Belluz, Vox | 03.23.2015
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In 2003, researchers writing in the American Journal of Medicine discovered something that should change how you think...