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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 Jo Tuckman, The Guardian | 09.25.2014
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Five days after her caesarean section, Nancy boarded a night bus in the southern Mexican city of Villahermosa...

By Emily Anthes, Bloomberg Businessweek | 09.25.2014
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Over the past decade, Kaiser Permanente has spent more than $4 billion building the world’s largest private-sector collection of...

By George Estreich, Salon | 09.25.2014
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Last month, Richard Dawkins offered this tweet about a hypothetical fetus with Down syndrome: “Abort it and try...

By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 09.25.2014

Science writer David Dobbs has definitively described the voracious appetite of the "selfish gene" meme, pointing out that the notion...

By News Medical, News Medical | 09.25.2014

A clinical trial led by UC San Francisco has found that when pregnant women are educated about their choices on...

By Donald G. McNeil, The New York Times | 09.24.2014
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The Obama administration on Wednesday issued new guidelines intended to strengthen the oversight of federally funded biology research...

By Karuna Jaggar, Huffington Post | 09.24.2014

The perseverance and scientific innovation of Dr. Mary Claire King, the geneticist whose efforts to identify the BRCA genes were...

By David Weisbrot, The Age | 09.23.2014
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Palmer United Party Senator Jacqui Lambie recently created controversy by claiming in her first speech to Parliament that...