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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 Editorial, Washington Post Editorial | 03.11.2015

WHAT’S THE point of spending millions of dollars on a crime lab if people don’t trust its findings and won’t...

By Editorial, Los Angeles Times | 03.11.2015
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A procedure newly approved in Britain allows babies to be conceived with DNA from three parents — a...

By John Whitehead, The Blaze | 03.11.2015
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Every dystopian sci-fi film we’ve ever seen is suddenly converging into this present moment in a dangerous trifecta...

By Hank Campbell, Science 2.0 | 03.11.2015
Untitled Document A decade ago there was a culture war surrounding human embryonic stem cells - people assumed it was...
By Marcin Goettig, Reuters [Poland] | 03.10.2015
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Poland's government approved a draft bill to regulate in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment on Tuesday, in a move aimed...

By Edward Hockings and Lewis Coyne, The Guardian | 03.10.2015
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With the UK launch of 23andMe’s home DNA testing kit, the legalisation of mitochondrial DNA transfer, and the...

By Govind Vijaykumar, The Asian Age | 03.08.2015
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Within a year, the world could see the first of what’s being described as the three-parent baby. And...

By Danielle Paquette, The Washington Post | 03.06.2015
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Mark Surrey, fertility specialist to the Kardashians, opens with the story of a 44-year-old lawyer who waited too...