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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 RFI, RFI | 06.26.2014

France has the right to ban surrogate parenthood but not to refuse granting legal to parent-child relationships of children born...

By Jerome Batley jr, Associated Press | 06.26.2014
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In 1948, as Naomi Schenck was rushed into a North Carolina operating room because she was having a...

By J.D. Tuccille, Reason | 06.26.2014
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The FBI's facial recognition database, into which it wants to put 52 million of our mugs by...

By Joyce Liptrap, Letter to the Editor, News Leader | 06.25.2014
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In light of the recent Virginia budget announcements, a little known omission to the original budget should be...

By Oliver Tickell, The Ecologist | 06.25.2014
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A scientific study that identified serious health impacts on rats fed on 'Roundup ready' GMO maize has been...

By Shelley Rowland, Lexology | 06.25.2014

Last year, the Federal Court of Australia confirmed that isolated naturally occurring nucleic acid sequences are patent eligible subject matter. ...

By Susan Donaldson James, ABC | 06.25.2014
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Jennifer Lahl is on a crusade to outlaw surrogacy, the process by which women lend their wombs to...

By Cat Barton, AFP | 06.25.2014
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Lao Cai (Vietnam) (AFP) - When Kiab turned 16, her brother promised to take her to a party...