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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 Eric Mennel, NPR | 10.31.2014
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Debra Blackmon was about to turn 14 in January 1972, when two social workers came to her home...

By Glenn Ashton, AllAfrica | 10.30.2014
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Synthetic food has long been the subject of speculative fiction, from Charlie Chaplin's "The Great Dictator" where poor...

By Chris O'Brien, Venture Beat | 10.29.2014
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VIENNA, Austria — Say this for Austen Heinz: His vision for the future will either thrill you or...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 10.29.2014
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For decades, biologists have studied gene function by inactivating the gene in question in mice and other lab...

By ETC Group, ETC Group | 10.29.2014
MONTREAL, 29 Oct. 2014–On the eve of the largest annual gathering of synthetic biologists in the world, ETC Group and...
By Rachel Walden, Our Bodies, Our Blog | 10.28.2014
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Apple recently announced it was joining Facebook in covering costs for female employees who opt to freeze their eggs for...

By Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, Wired | 10.24.2014
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A self-proclaimed geek friend once described Silicon Valley as a place where instead of going to the movies...

By Karen Weintraub, MIT Technology Review | 10.24.2014
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James Collins, a synthetic biologist at Boston University, says he’s been able to print the ingredients for simple...