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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 Denise Balkissoon, The Globe and Mail | 02.12.2015
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For 2 1/2 years, Sara Karklins tried very, very hard to get pregnant. In the fall of 2010...

By Verónica Calderón, El Pais | 02.12.2015
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Luis Delgado and José Antonio Fernández, a gay married couple from Spain, decided to have a child via...

By Corine Lesnes, Le Monde | 02.12.2015
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S’il fallait résumer la philosophie transhumaniste d’une idée, la plus extrême mais aussi la plus saisissante, ce serait...

By GEN, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 02.12.2015

Since the first in vitro fertilization (IVF) birth in 1978 more than 5 million babies have been born using this...

By Daniel Cressey, Nature News | 02.12.2015
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Solid scientific evidence can be crucial for solving crimes. But science may have been progressing too fast for...

By Ahn Mi-Young and Dennis Normile, Science Insider | 02.10.2015
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The scientist who once fraudulently claimed to have created embryonic stem cells matched to human patients and the...

By Luke Timmerman, Forbes | 02.09.2015
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There’s a reason you can’t donate a kidney or bone marrow to just anybody. Each person’s immune system...

By Marcy Darnovsky and Jessica Cussins, Los Angeles Times | 02.08.2015

Britain is about to become the only country in the world to explicitly allow the inheritable genetic modification of humans...