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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 Jenny Graves, The Washington Post | 06.06.2014
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The claim that homosexual men share a “gay gene” created a furor in the 1990s. But...

By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 06.05.2014

Three-person IVF is a critical departure from the traditional kind. This new and biologically extreme technique, which has generated scientific...

By Emily Underwood, Science | 06.05.2014
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The price of President Barack Obama’s BRAIN may have just quadrupled. Last year, the White House unveiled a...

By Bettina Chang, Pacific Standard | 06.05.2014
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You’re familiar with the scene: A skeleton lies, inscrutable, on a table in a dimly lit medical examiner’s office...

By Jessica Mason Pieklo, RH Reality Check | 06.04.2014
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This week, the International Human Rights Clinic at the University of Chicago Law School, the National Asian Pacific...

By Lizzie Thelwell, Medical Xpress | 06.04.2014
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Researchers have reviewed current knowledge to further understand the reasons for the increased incidence of birth defects in...

By Joseph Cox, Mother Board | 06.04.2014
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Medicine will be revolutionised in the 21st century, thanks largely to our increasing understanding and collection of genetic data.

Genetic...

By Press Release, GeneWatch UK | 06.04.2014

GeneWatch UK today criticised a speech by the new NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens, in which he reportedly argued...