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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 Darlena Cunha, The Atlantic | 12.22.2014
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When Rhyannon Morrigan and her husband Drew used an egg donor and surrogate to have their child at...

By Cecile Janssens, Huffington Post | 12.22.2014
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A year after the US Food and Drug Administration urged 23andMe to stop the marketing of its personal...

By Mirah Riben, Huffington Post | 12.22.2014
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Aldous Huxley (Brave New World, 1932), Margaret Atwood (Handmaid's Tale, 1985), and Lois Lowry...

By Martin Fackler, The New York Times | 12.19.2014
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TOKYO — In a blow to the prestige of Japan’s scientific community, a government-backed research institute accepted...

By GEN, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 12.18.2014

Today the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled that human embryonic stem cell patents could be allowed if organisms can't...

By SMFM, Society for Maternal Fetal Medicine | 12.18.2014

A recent article in the Boston Globe presents a disturbing picture of prenatal testing, in a report describing how “...

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 12.18.2014

Haruko Obokata, the Japanese stem-cell biologist whose papers caused a sensation earlier this year before being retracted, has not succeeded...

By Saudi Gazette, Saudi Gazette | 12.18.2014

DAMMAM — Private hospitals are carrying out pre-conception gender selection operations and reporting them as IV fertilization or artificial fertilization...