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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 David Kravets, Ars Technica | 03.02.2015
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The Supreme Court on Monday let stand the conviction of a rapist whose prosecution rested on DNA swiped...

By Adam Rutherford, The Guardian | 03.01.2015
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Barely a week goes by without some dispiriting tale of racism seeping into the public consciousness: the endless...

By Stephanie Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.28.2015

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Wojcicki (pronounced wo-JIT-ski) made it her mission...

By John Farrell, Forbes | 02.28.2015
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With last week’s parliamentary vote, the U.K. is quickly moving ahead with plans to be the first...

By Gary Robertson, Reuters | 02.26.2015
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Virginia would pay the handful of survivors of a forced sterilization program $25,000 each in compensation under a...

By Japan Times, Japan Times | 02.26.2015

A panel under the Japan Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology will not recommend that young and healthy women preserve their...

By Leah Ramsay, Berman Institute of Bioethics Bulletin | 02.26.2015
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The House of Lords in the United Kingdom voted to allow fertility clinics to  apply for licenses to...

By Beth Greenfield, Yahoo Parenting | 02.26.2015
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In a world where egg harvesting, gestational surrogacy, genetic selection, and now mitochondrial replacement — aka “three-parent babies,”...