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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.

"These are saliva...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Robin Marantz Henig, Slate | 09.30.2014
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The cocktail party at the trendy Crosby Street Hotel in SoHo could have been a networking event for...

By Chad Terhune, Noam N. Levey, Sandra Poindexter, Los Angeles Times | 09.30.2014
Pulling the curtain back on long-hidden industry relationships, the federal government revealed that U.S. doctors and teaching hospitals had $3.5...
By Michael Brendan Dougherty, The Week | 09.30.2014

It's hard to shake the feeling that eugenics can make a comeback. Or that it never really left us.

When...

By Robert Cook-Deegan, Genomics Law Report | 09.30.2014

On September 5, the Federal Court of Australia (the appeals court) upheld a claim on isolated DNA from the BRCA1...

By Natasha Robinson, The Australian | 09.29.2014
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IN inner-city Sydney, a man in his 50s answers an unexpected knock at the front door. It’s the...

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 09.28.2014
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After five years the American Society for Reproductive Medicine has updated its guidelines for gamete donation in the...

By Corey G. Johnson, Center for Investigative Reporting | 09.26.2014
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Cynthia Chandler, co-founder of the Oakland, California-based prisoner rights group Justice Now, is not usually short on words...

By Jamie Davies, Aeon | 09.26.2014
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Here is a remarkable fact about identical twins: they have the same DNA, and therefore the same ‘genetic...