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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 John Horgan, Scientific American | 10.14.2014
For more than 20 years, I’ve hammered behavioral genetics, and especially research linking genes to intelligence. Last spring, I proposed...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 10.14.2014

Since they were first isolated 16 years ago, human embryonic stem cells have been thought to have the potential to...

By Joshua A. Krisch, The New York Times | 10.13.2014

An old stucco house stands atop a grassy hill overlooking the Long Island Sound. Less than a mile down the...

By Shirley S. Wang, The Wall Street Journal | 10.13.2014
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Doctors are devising new ways to shield patients from information about their odds for disease as genetic testing...

By Jamie F. Metzl, Foreign Affairs | 10.12.2014
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The revolution in genetic engineering that will make it possible for humans to actively manage our evolutionary process...

By Kristine Crane, US News | 10.10.2014
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There are precious few tests in medicine, save pregnancy perhaps, where a positive test result is good news...

By Ben Doherty, Melissa Davey and Daniel Hurst, The Guardian | 10.09.2014

Details have emerged of an investigation into the case of an Australian couple abandoning one of their twins born to...

By Nathaniel Adam Tobias <strike>Coleman</strike>, Times Higher Education | 10.09.2014

“The British invented racism,” said the UK’s first “black female” MP. “Britain…almost invented racism,” said the US’ first “black male”...