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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 Pete Shanks, Huffington Post | 12.10.2014

Money and deals are flowing into companies that promise to edit genes. Human, animal, plant, all kinds of DNA may...

By Editorial, Nature | 12.09.2014

The most important resource needed to conduct research on humans, it is said, is not brainpower or money: it is...

By Sophie Scott, ABC.au [Australia] | 12.08.2014
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Experts are warning Australians to be extremely careful when ordering genetic tests online, saying the tests may not...

By Alana Semuels, The Atlantic | 12.08.2014
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Dawn Pieke’s relationship imploded just before she reached 40. Pieke had a miscarriage and shortly after, her boyfriend...
By John Galloway, BioNews | 12.08.2014
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Although the word was not actually used (or at least I did not hear it), this was a...

By Beth Greenfield, Yahoo | 12.05.2014
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Ever heard of “gender disappointment”? Jayne and Jon Cornwill certainly have. It’s what drove the Australian couple to...

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 12.04.2014

Rarely could I be described in a headline in The New York Times, which explains why I lingered over...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 12.04.2014

Last month in San Francisco, biologists Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier showed up in black gowns to receive the $3...