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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 Sara Reardon, Nature News | 11.19.2014
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Hiding negative results and harmful side effects that occur in clinical trials would become harder in the United...

By William Wolfe-Wylie, Canada.com | 11.18.2014
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Even a decade ago, the idea of genetic discrimination sounded like science fiction. Today, it’s a reality Canadian law...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 11.18.2014
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Geneticists have a dirty little secret. More than a decade after the official completion of the Human Genome...

By Cath Becker and Suzan Clarke, Good Morning America | 11.18.2014
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Researchers at UCLA announced today that they had cured 18 children who were born with the so-called Bubble...

By The Philippine Star, The Philippine Star | 11.17.2014

MANILA, Philippines - Recent years have seen a boom in the number of stem cell clinics opening to the public...

By Margaret Somerville, National Post | 11.17.2014
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Apple’s and Facebook’s announcement last month that they would offer $20,000 health insurance coverage to women employees to...

By Kelly Crowe, CBC News | 11.17.2014
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It is no longer enough for scientists to discover something, publish their findings and advance knowledge. These days...

By David E. Jensen, Sacramento Bee | 11.15.2014
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Twenty years ago, a 341-pound football player smashed into Roman Reed during a Chabot College game in Hayward...