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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 Pippa Stephens, BBC | 10.08.2014
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An advance in gene therapy may provide safe treatment to children with a fatal genetic disorder that leads...

By Keli Goff, The Daily Beast | 10.07.2014
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Many are outraged by the story of a woman suing a sperm bank for mistakenly providing her with...

By Bradley J. Fikes, UT San Diego | 10.07.2014

More than ever before, stem cell therapies appear poised to transform medicine — potentially curing heart disease, diabetes and paralyzing...

By Bradley J. Fikes, UT San Diego | 10.07.2014

More than ever before, stem cell therapies appear poised to transform medicine — potentially curing heart disease, diabetes and paralyzing...

By Louise Milligan, ABC | 10.06.2014

In August, Sydney-based biotech company Regeneus, which raised $12 million by listing on the stock market last year, put out...

By Dov Fox, The Huffington Post | 10.06.2014
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More than a million children in the U.S. each year are conceived with donated sperm or eggs. Sperm...

By Jonathan Petre and Stephen Adams, Mail on Sunday | 10.04.2014
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Legislation to allow the birth of babies with genes from three biological parents should be put on hold...

By James Gallagher, BBC News | 10.04.2014
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A woman in Sweden has given birth to a baby boy using a transplanted womb, in a medical...