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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 Alda Sigmundsdóttir, The Iceland Weather Report | 05.19.2014
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Last week I posted a picture on our Facebook page of the contents of an envelope I received...

By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Boston Globe | 05.19.2014
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On paper, Dr. Robert C. Green should be worried. An analysis of his DNA flagged a rare mutation...

By Kirsten Stewart, The Salt Lake Tribune | 05.15.2014

In the fall of 2010, a team of scientists in California injected human stem cells into the spinal cords of...

By Arthur Allen, The New York Times | 05.15.2014

Few areas of science have contributed more to human misery than the study of racial difference. In the 1920s, eugenicists...

By Alina Shron, The Copenhagen Post | 05.15.2014
A Danish company offers parents-to-be a sex selection service for their future child. For around 40,000 kroner, couples can choose...
By Caroline Cooper, Adam May and Anna Christiansen, Al Jazeera America | 05.15.2014
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Jonah Winn-Lenetsky and Chris Pommier have wanted children ever since they started dating in college more than a...

By Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica | 05.14.2014

On Tuesday, an Alaska man became the lead plaintiff in a proposed class-action lawsuit filed against the makers of Family...

By Amy Gutmann, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 05.14.2014

Neurological conditions—which include dementia, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, schizophrenia, and traumatic brain injury—affect as many as one billion people...