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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 Yves Frégnac & Gilles Laurent, Nature | 09.03.2014
Launched in October 2013, the Human Brain Project (HBP) was sold by charismatic neurobiologist Henry Markram as a bold new...
By The Telegraph, The Telegraph | 09.02.2014

An Australian man has been charged with sexually abusing twin girls he fathered several years ago to a Thai surrogate...

By Melissa Eddy, The New York Times | 09.02.2014
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BERLIN — The first to be singled out for systematic murder by the Nazis were the mentally ill...

By Cecilia Okoth, New Vision | 09.02.2014

Imagine a woman desperately trying to get pregnant, but so far every attempt is unsuccessful. Would you be brave enough...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 09.02.2014
Four years ago, Scott Fahrenkrug saw an ABC News segment about the dehorning of dairy cows, a painful procedure that...
By Joanna Glasner, Reuters | 09.02.2014
Synthetic biology, which uses engineered gene sequences to create new biological systems and devices, used to be a subject for...
By The Times News, The Times News | 09.01.2014

It’s hard to blame Elnora Mills for not feeling terribly grateful. Decades after being forcibly sterilized under the state eugenics...

By Press Association, Press Association | 09.01.2014

Britain risks being considered a "rogue state" if it pushes ahead with developing "genetically modified people", MPs were told.

Conservative...