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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 Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph | 07.01.2014
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Women who become pregnant using donated eggs have at least three times the risk of developing serious complications...

By Terry Barnes, The Age | 07.01.2014
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Doing what comes naturally does indeed come naturally to most of us. But, for the one in six...

By Kerry Grens, The Scientist | 06.30.2014
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About four years ago, Jay Tischfield, the director of RUDCR Infinite Biologics, a long-standing biorepository at Rutgers...

By Editorial, Charlotte Observer | 06.29.2014
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Today, North Carolina moves closer to shutting the door on one of the state’s more shameful episodes. June...

By Hank Greely, Law and Biosciences Blog | 06.27.2014
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Would you want to know the date and time of your death? Life-Line, the first published fiction...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.27.2014
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“Selling Stem Cells Honestly” is the headline this week over at the Biopolitical Times, which also says...
By Kim Tingley, New York Times Magazine | 06.27.2014
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In August 1996, at St. Barnabas Medical Center in Livingston, N.J., a 39-year-old mechanical engineer from Pittsburgh named...

By Jeffrey Shuren, FDA Voice | 06.26.2014
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We’ve come to recognize that almost every disease has a genetic component, and many consumers now are eager...