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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 Naomi Schaefer Riley, New York Post | 11.04.2014
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New York’s liberal intelligentsia doubtless gave knowing nods last week when Sen. Mary Landrieu noted, “The South hasn’t...

By Georgia Graham, Daily Telegraph [UK] | 11.04.2014
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MPs have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a motion declaring that sex-selection abortion is illegal.

They voted 181...

By CBS, CBC News [Canada] | 11.03.2014

An Ottawa hospital is challenging the legality of gene patents that hamper the ability of doctors to freely screen for...

By Theodore Decker, The Columbus Dispatch | 11.02.2014
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When DNA evidence began appearing in U.S. courtrooms in the late 1980s, it was heralded as the greatest...

By Katie Stoll, The DNA Exchange | 11.02.2014
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At the recent National Society of Genetic Counselors Annual Education Conference in New Orleans, a presentation raised some...

By Josephine Johnston and Miriam Zoll, New Republic | 11.01.2014
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When news broke several weeks ago that tech giants Apple and Facebook were offering female employees elective egg...

By Kevin Bullis, MIT Technology Review | 10.31.2014
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This week Google described its ambitious plan to use magnetic nanoparticles circulating through the blood to detect and...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 10.31.2014
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The thorny and unresolved question of whether life itself can be patented may come again before the U.S...