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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 Sabriya Rice, Modern Healthcare | 03.06.2015
Untitled Document Online ads for genetic cancer tests that promise to identify the best treatment “to kill your cancer” and...
By Kevin Boehnke, Science | 03.06.2015
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Throughout my science education, I have dutifully memorized facts: the stages of photosynthesis, the enzymes involved in the...

By Virginia Hughes, BuzzFeed | 03.05.2015
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Last May, when she was 10 weeks pregnant, Eunice Lee took a blood test to screen for diseases...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.05.2015
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If anyone had devised a way to create a genetically engineered baby, I figured George Church would know...

By CBC, CBC News | 03.05.2015

A Dalhousie University professor is discouraging career-minded women from freezing their eggs for lifestyle reasons, a practice known as 'social...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.05.2015

Melissa and her husband started trying to have a baby right after they got married. But nothing was happening. So...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 03.05.2015

T. Ryan Gregory’s lab at the University of Guelph in Ontario is a sort of genomic menagerie, stocked with creatures...

By Andrew Maynard, The Conversation | 03.04.2015
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On July 31, 2012, a massive blackout swept across northeast India. At 1 pm local time, a power...