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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 Adam Rutherford, The Guardian | 12.01.2014
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The great scientist James Watson is to auction his Nobel prize medal. He told the Financial Times...

By Amy Klein, Newsweek | 11.29.2014
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In 2004, Danielle Decrette went in for in vitro fertilization. It wasn’t her first time—she and her husband...

By AP, Associated Press in Bangkok | 11.28.2014

Thailand’s interim parliament has given initial approval to a bill banning commercial surrogacy, the practice of hiring a woman to...

By Ludwig Burger and Ben Hirschler, Reuters | 11.26.2014
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(Reuters) - The Western world's first gene therapy drug is set to go on sale in Germany with...

By Iain Aitch, New Republic | 11.26.2014
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The most stirring art has the ability to make us stop, think, and even act, but a new...

By Julia Karow, GenomeWeb | 11.25.2014
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Results from an undercover performance test of five commercial noninvasive prenatal testing laboratories suggest...

By Ariel Bogle, Slate | 11.24.2014
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In vitro fertilization was originally intended to help a very specific young, married, and female demographic to conceive...

By Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast | 11.24.2014
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Welcome to the brave new world of technology-enhanced human reproduction with its promise of alleviating the heartache of...