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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 Robert Klitzman, CNN | 03.13.2015
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"I decided to get genetic testing on the outside without telling my doctor," a woman recently told me...

By Nayef Al-Rodhan, Scientific American | 03.13.2015
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In the past four decades technology has fundamentally altered our lives: from the way we work to how...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.12.2015
Untitled Document Officials of a biotechnology industry group have called for a voluntary moratorium on using new DNA-editing techniques to...
By Alex Lash, Xconomy | 03.12.2015
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As I reported earlier, 23andMe today announced its intention to pursue pharmaceutical R&D, in addition to its...

By Edward Lanphier, Fyodor Urnov, Sarah Ehlen Haecker, Michael Werner & Joanna Smolenski, Nature News | 03.12.2015
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It is thought that studies involving the use of genome-editing tools to modify the DNA of human embryos...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 03.12.2015
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Amid rumours that precision gene-editing techniques have been used to modify the DNA of human embryos, researchers have...

By Ron Winslow, Wall Street Journal | 03.12.2015
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23andMe Inc., the personal genetics company, has sold enough DNA spit kits to accumulate genetic information on 850,000...

By Sarah C. P. Williams, Science News | 03.12.2015
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You’re not completely human, at least when it comes to the genetic material inside your cells. You—and everyone...