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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 Shimon Koffler Fogel and Bev Heim-Myers, Huffington Post [Canada] | 12.12.2014
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Protecting members of our society from discrimination based on the colour of their skin, ethnicity, or ancestry is...

By Chris Woolston, Nature News | 12.12.2014
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Researchers love to blame the news media when reports about science are misleading or even wrong. But a...

By MARINA ADSHADE, The Globe and Mail | 12.12.2014

Last week, Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette tabled a bill that, if passed, will prohibit women over the age of...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.11.2014
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Directors of the $3 billion California stem cell agency today approved a $50 million plan that will radically...
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 12.10.2014
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Elite athletes do whatever it takes to win. Lately, that’s meant getting an injection of their own stem...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 12.10.2014
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Eggs and sperm do it when they combine to make an embryo. John Gurdon did it in the...

By David McNamee, Medical News Today | 12.10.2014
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Last week, it was announced that the Google-associated home DNA screening kit, 23andMe will be launched in the...

By Christine Rosen, Slate | 12.10.2014
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If Silicon Valley has anything like a coherent philosophy, it is summed up in the idea that the...