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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 Ben Minteer, Nature World View | 05.14.2014

The North American sky, according to historical accounts, was once black with passenger pigeons. Hunters, however, saw to it that...

By Eric Hal Schwartz, In The Capital | 05.13.2014

Any medical advance always brings along con men hoping to exploit the news with useless or even dangerous "medicine" of...

By Agustín Fuentes, Psychology Today | 05.13.2014
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On May 5th, 2014, I shared the platform in a webinar debate with Nicholas Wade (former NYTimes Science...

By Jonathan Marks, In These Times | 05.12.2014
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Americans reject aspects of science—vaccinations, anthropogenic climate change, evolution—for diverse reasons. Sometimes those reasons are religious, sometimes economic...

By Nicole Hasham, The Sydney Morning Herald | 05.11.2014
Fertility clinics will be forced to hand over information about anonymous sperm donors so children can learn about their genetic...
By John Markoff, The New York Times | 05.09.2014
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — When does a scientific conference warrant the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and...

By Jack Stilgoe, The Guardian | 05.08.2014
The Inter-Academy Panel, a network of the world’s science academies including our own Royal Society, today issued a statement...
By Susan Decker, Bloomberg | 05.08.2014

The Scottish scientists famous for concocting “Dolly” the sheep lost a bid to get U.S. patent protection for the cloned...