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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 Rachel Glaser, WHAM TV | 05.23.2014

Rochester, N.Y. -- People who undergo increasingly popular genetic testing could be penalized, forced to pay higher premiums or denied...

By Dana Perls, Food and Technology Blog | 05.22.2014

Two Mondays ago, I sat in a room of some of the most powerful agribusiness, food and synthetic biology companies...

By Steven Brown and Mary McElroy, Providence Journal | 05.22.2014

The presumption of innocence lies at the heart of our system of criminal justice, but a bill that will soon...

By Alexis C. Madrigal, The Atlantic | 05.21.2014
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Forty years ago, there was exactly one way for humans to reproduce. A man’s sperm would combine with...

By Andy Thompson, Post-Crescent Media | 05.20.2014
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Wisconsin has joined a handful of states in allowing familial DNA testing — a powerful but debatable procedure...

By Abby Phillip, Washington Post | 05.20.2014

California legislators are hoping to make resolving the tricky issue of parental rights as easy as filling out a form...

By Dr. Gordon Atherley, VoiceAmerica | 05.19.2014

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Enola G. Aird

Marcy Darnovsky, PhD

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Enola G. Aird is a...

By Laura Mauldin, Somatosphere | 05.19.2014
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I am grateful to Somatosphere for inviting to me to write a post for the blog. I was...