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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 Amanda Wilson, Pacific Standard | 07.21.2014
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In a lot of ways, the people of Kannapolis, North Carolina, are lucky.

Eleven years ago, the community...

By Alex Ewen, Indian Country Today Media Network | 07.19.2014
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Archaeological discoveries in South America in the 1980s led to a revision in the timeline of the Bering...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 07.18.2014
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Anyone who cares about the advance of medical science and about the promise of biotechnology should be dismayed...

By Ian Haney López, Moyers & Company | 07.18.2014
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Writing recently in The New York Times, Thomas Edsall linked race, genes and political ideology. Edsall, a...

By Victoria Massie, GeneWatch | 07.17.2014

Returning home from fieldwork can be difficult when you find yourself caught between an unintended call back to your project...

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe | 07.17.2014
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A powerful new technology could be used to “edit” the genomes of organisms in the wild, enabling researchers...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.17.2014
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A former senior manager at StemCells, Inc., which holds a $19.4 million award from the California stem...
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Boston Globe | 07.17.2014
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A powerful new technology could be used to “edit” the genomes of organisms in the wild, enabling researchers...