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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 Mary Papenfuss, Reuters | 08.20.2014

Birth certificates in California would be changed to more accurately reflect families in which parents are of the same gender...

By William P. Hanage, Nature | 08.20.2014

Explorations of how the microscopic communities that inhabit the human body might contribute to health or disease have moved from...

By Barry Bergman, NewsCenter | 08.20.2014
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“I once had a very good professor who gave me very bad advice,” UC Berkeley sociologist Troy Duster...

By Beth Greenfield, Yahoo! Health | 08.19.2014
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When news broke earlier this month about baby Gammy — the newborn with Down syndrome who was left...

By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 08.18.2014

The National Science Foundation's (NSF’s) role in the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) Initiative is starting to take...

By UN Women, UN Women | 08.18.2014

New Delhi, July 22, 2014 – The sharply declining child sex ratio in India has reached emergency proportions and urgent...

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 08.16.2014
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Australian law could be revised to allow more than two parents, if recommendations in a major report are...

By Sarah Dingle, The Sydney Morning Herald | 08.16.2014

The discovery in her late 20s that she was conceived using a sperm donor was a huge shock to Sarah...