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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 Lisa Rapaport, Reuters | 01.09.2015
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(Reuters Health) - A decade after giving birth, surrogate mothers don't appear to suffer lasting mental health difficulties...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 01.06.2015

Facebook generates about $8 a year in revenue from each of its users. But what if you offered a company...

By Jennifer Lynch, Electronic Frontier Foundation | 01.05.2015

DNA can reveal an extraordinary amount of private information about you, including familial relationships, medical history, predisposition for disease...

By Myles Jackson, The Huffington Post | 01.05.2015

The numerous and impassioned responses to Nicholas Wade's recently published Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History have once again...

By Katherine Don, The Atlantic | 01.05.2015
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When I suffered my third consecutive miscarriage this past May, my mom said she wanted to help me...

By John Markoff, The New York Times | 01.05.2015
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MENLO PARK, CALIF. — Ann Lam delicately places a laboratory slide holding a slice of brain from a...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 01.03.2015
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Turning 10 years old may not quite mark adolescence for a human child, but for a major government...

By Stephanie M. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 01.03.2015
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In Austen Heinz’s vision of the future, customers tinker with the genetic codes of plants and animals and...