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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 Agence France Presse, Agence France Presse | 01.22.2015

Imagine a world where mosquito-sized robots fly around stealing samples of your DNA. Or where a department store knows from...

By Reuters staff, Scientific American | 01.22.2015

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese health authorities on Wednesday described the gender imbalance among newborns as "the most serious and prolonged"...

By Philippa Brice, PHG Foundation | 01.21.2015
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The UK Government and Association of British Insurers (ABI) have agreed to extend their voluntary moratorium on the...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 01.21.2015
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Could genetically modified bacteria escape from a laboratory or fermentation tank and cause disease or ecological destruction?

This...

By Laura Neergaard, Associated Press | 01.19.2015
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How your immune system does its job seems to depend more on your environment and the germs you...

By James Gallagher, BBC News | 01.18.2015
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Dr Tony Perry, a pioneer in cloning, has announced precise DNA editing at the moment of conception in...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 01.18.2015
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The biotechnology industry tends to be overshadowed by the razzle-dazzle of high-tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Google...

By Robert McMillan, Wired | 01.16.2015

On the first Sunday afternoon of 2015, Elon Musk took to the stage at a closed-door conference at a Puerto Rican...