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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 Tamar Lewin, The New York Times | 07.05.2014
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At home in Lisbon, a gay couple invited friends over to a birthday celebration, and at the end...

By Angela Meng, South China Morning Post | 07.03.2014
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The mainland has lifted the controversial ban on medical diagnostic products that can help detect birth defects in...

By Richard Van Noorden, Nature News | 07.03.2014
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The journal Science is adding an extra round of statistical checks to its peer-review process, editor-in-chief Marcia McNutt...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 07.03.2014
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It seemed almost too good to be true — and it was. Two papers1, 2 that...

By Olga Khazan, The Atlantic | 07.03.2014
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ASPEN, Colo.—A new type of in-vitro fertilization procedure allows doctors to transfer the mitochondrial DNA from one woman...

By Steve Rendall, FAIR | 07.02.2014
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Nicholas Wade was a leading New York Times science writer for three decades. He left the paper weeks...

By The Aspen Institute, The Aspen Institute [With CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 07.02.2014

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The discussion of "designer babies" often revolves around gender or hair color, but the...

By Jeremy Gruber, Council for Responsible Genetics Blog | 07.02.2014
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As genetic testing and genetic information become increasingly available, it is critical that employers have a full understanding...