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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 admin ASAN | 06.12.2014

In response to the recent announcement of the new Google-Autism Speaks collaboration to produce, expand and analyze the world’s largest...

By Margaret Lutze, Guardian Liberty Voice | 06.12.2014
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Should research subjects be given their genetic test results? A paper recently published in The American Journal of...

By Meredith Salisbury, The Huffington Post | 06.12.2014
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As we move closer to an era when a sequence of every human genome is the norm, an...

By Arielle Duhaime-Ross, Verge | 06.12.2014
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For more than a decade, scientists have been developing a fertility technique that involves combining DNA from three...

By Loretta Ross, RH Reality Check | 06.12.2014
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I was sterilized in 1976 when I was 23 years old. My paternalistic doctor visited me the day...

By Jennifer K. Wagner, Genomics Law Report | 06.11.2014
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A Canadian court made headlines this month when it decided, as a preliminary matter, that human tissue removed...

By Kayt Sukel, BioTechniques | 06.11.2014
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Open any basic biology textbook and you’ll find a similar description of mitochondria, the small ovoid organelles found...

By Josie Glausiusz, Nature | 06.11.2014
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On 23 April 1945, my father, Gershon Glausiusz, was liberated from the Nazis. He was ten years old...