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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 Vindu Goel, The New York Times | 08.12.2014

Scholars are exhilarated by the prospect of tapping into the vast troves of personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon...

By Jessica Cussins, CNBC | 08.11.2014

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As the genetically modified food wars wage on, another bombshell has been quietly waiting to...

By Lindsay Murdoch, The Sydney Morning Herald | 08.09.2014

About 50 Australian couples' dreams of having surrogate children have been shattered after Thai authorities linked their Bangkok clinic with...

By Thaddeus Pope, Medical Futility Blog | 08.09.2014
Several Taiwanese researchers have just published a new study:  "Over-Optimistic Portrayal of Life-Supporting Treatments in Newspapers and on the Internet...
By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 08.08.2014

The notoriety of the Tuskegee syphilis study is unparalleled in the field of bioethics. Last week marked the 42nd anniversary...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 08.08.2014
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More than 130 leading population geneticists have condemned a book arguing that genetic variation between human populations could...

By Ian Birrell, The Guardian | 08.07.2014

I can still remember each second of that day just before Christmas when everything changed. The happy family lunch, then...

By Grant Peck and Kriten Gelineau, AP | 08.07.2014
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For thousands of well-off childless couples, the dream of having a baby is often realized in places like...