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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 Josie Glausiusz, Nature News & Comment | 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...

By Rana Dajani, Nature | 06.11.2014
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In January, Jordan passed a law to control research and therapy using human stem cells derived from embryos...

By Mark Joseph Stern, Slate | 06.11.2014

Nine days before death row inmate Earl Washington’s scheduled execution, his lawyers informed the state of Virginia that it was...

By Adam Frank, NPR Blog | 06.10.2014
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We have a problem. It's a big one that raises big challenges for the human future and the...

By Pete Shanks, The Huffington Post | 06.09.2014

Nicholas Wade's book A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History has been out for a month, and the fuss...

By Jeeg, Council for Responsible Genetics | 06.09.2014
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Background

The Forensic Genetics Policy Initiative (www.dnapolicyinitiative.org) is a civil society-led project which aims to set...

By Maurice Bernstein, Bioethics Discussion | 06.08.2014
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Inequality, 1754  wrote "The first man who, having fenced in a piece of land, said 'This...
By Pete Shanks | 06.06.2014

Over the past couple of months, there has been a cascade of proposals for — or at least discussions about...