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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...

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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 BBC, BBC | 02.20.2015

Thailand has passed a law banning foreigners from paying Thai women to be surrogates, after two high-profile cases sparked debate...

By Ricki Lewis, Medscsape | 02.20.2015
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On February 19, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized 23andMe to market a direct-to-consumer (DTC) carrier...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 02.20.2015
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Genetic testing has entered a new realm, with the ability to read a person's genetic code and predict...

By Marcus Woo, Wired | 02.19.2015
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When scientists sequenced the human genome a decade ago, they hoped to unlock the code of life, the...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 02.19.2015

Noah is a six-year-old suffering from a disorder without a name. This year, his physicians will begin sending his genetic...

By Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | 02.19.2015

Researchers have increased the size of mouse brains by giving the rodents a piece of human DNA that controls gene...

By Press Release, Electronic Frontier Foundation | 02.18.2015
EFF is asking the Supreme Court to hear arguments in Raynor v. State of Maryland, a case that examines whether...
By Editorial, Nature | 02.18.2015

The Greek prefix epi- can signify upon, on, over, near, at, before, and after. Most of those could apply to...