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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 Amelia Thomson-Deveaux, The American Prospect | 04.09.2014
In January, two legislators in Virginia’s House of Delegates introduced a bill that should have been uncontroversial. The bulk of...
By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 04.09.2014
The Ontario government announced Thursday it will become only the second province in Canada to fund in-vitro fertilization [IVF] for...
By Catherine de Lange, New Scientist | 04.09.2014
WILL my baby be healthy? It's a question that concerns every prospective parent. Now a service that creates digital embryos...
By Editorial, Nature Biotechnology | 04.08.2014

CRISPR-Cas genome editing technology is attracting a growing cadre of devotees. In the past 18 months, over 125 papers on...

By Leslie A. Pray, Indian Defence | 04.08.2014

What if you could screen embryos for diseases before they became babies? What if you had the power to choose...

By Kira Peikoff, The New York Times | 04.07.2014
About 700,000 Americans have had their DNA sequenced, in full or in part, and the number is rising rapidly as...
By Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Nature | 04.07.2014
Growing up in a stressful social environment leaves lasting marks on young chromosomes, a study of African American boys has...
By Leah Ceccarelli, The Seattle Times | 04.06.2014
In a televised speech introducing the first episode of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s reboot of Carl Sagan’s TV series “Cosmos,” President...