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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 Steve Connor, The Independent | 02.08.2015
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Older women trying for a baby could soon be offered the IVF technique of so-called “three-parent” embryos that...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 02.08.2015
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It may seem strange that an expert in cloning – the man who produced the first clones of...

By Carly Weeks, The Globe and Mail | 02.08.2015
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April Gore wants to be a mother. She just doesn’t know when. But once she’s ready, the 28-year-old...

By Jacqueline Nelson, The Globe and Mail | 02.08.2015
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Somewhere between calls to “break the glass ceiling” and the war cry to “have it all,” working women...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 02.07.2015
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A Nuffield Council review of the British Government’s ‘care.data’ scheme has found that the existing privacy framework needs...

By KQED, KQED Radio [With CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 02.06.2015

 

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After a parliamentary vote earlier this week, the United Kingdom is set to become...

By Cynthia Graber, The New Yorker | 02.05.2015
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Last Friday, in a speech at the White House, President Obama unveiled what he called his Precision Medicine...

By Taras K. Oleksyk and Juan Carlos Martinez-Cruzado, Scientific American | 02.05.2015

Disappointed by James Watson’s decision to sell his Nobel Prize medal, Lior Pachter, a computational biologist who works on...