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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 Craig Klugman, Bioethics.net | 02.18.2015

How do physicians diagnose disease? First they go through a set of symptoms and then compile a list of differential...

By Blair Crawford, Ottawa Citizen | 02.18.2015

DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid, “the building block of life,” has become a standard for forensic evidence. The famous “double helix” molecule...

By Justin L. Sonnenburg, Scientific American | 02.17.2015
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In the not too distant future each of us will be able to colonize our gut with genetically...

By Dr Trevor Stammers, St Mary’s University Blog | 02.16.2015
By Philippa Taylor, BioNews | 02.16.2015
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In a recent debate organised by the Progress Educational Trust in Parliament - 'Mitochondrial Donation: Is It...

By Abigail Zuger, The New York Times | 02.16.2015
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I had intended to discuss President Obama’s plans for personalized precision medicine with my patient Barbara last week...

By Global Dispatch, Global Dispatch | 02.13.2015

The so-called “three-parent embryo” legislation that the United Kingdom’s House of Commons passed Feb. 3 likely breaches a European Union...

By Helia Ighani, Council on Foreign Relations | 02.13.2015
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Since 2001, major metropolitan cities have increasingly conducted gas and chemical attack simulations in subway systems. Police departments...