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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 Elie Dolgin, Nature Medicine | 08.06.2014
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Unregulated stem cell clinics are proliferating throughout the US. A case in point is the Cell Surgical Network...

By Nicholas Bakalar, The New York Times | 08.06.2014
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Mutations in a gene called PALB2 raise the risk of breast cancer in women by almost as much...

By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times | 08.05.2014
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Two American aid workers were gravely ill, fighting to survive infection with the deadly Ebola virus. A San...

By Gulzaar Barn, Practical Ethics | 08.05.2014
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Last month Lord Robert Winston delivered the Physiological Society summer lecture entitled, ‘Shall we be human in the...

By Karen Kaplan, L | 08.05.2014
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A Japanese scientist who played an instrumental role in two discredited studies about a new type of stem...

By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times | 08.05.2014
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A Japanese scientist who played an instrumental role in two discredited studies about a new type of stem...

By Helen Wallace, Epoch Times | 08.03.2014
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The new Chief Executive of the National Health Service (NHS) in England, Simon Stevens, was recently reported arguing...

By Ian Johnson and Cao Li, The New York Times | 08.02.2014
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WUHAN, China — In a small conference room overlooking this city’s smog-shrouded skyline, Huang Jinlai outlines his offer...