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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 Catherine de Lange, The Guardian | 04.05.2014
Two days after Anne Morriss took her newborn son home from hospital, she received a bone-chilling phone call. The stranger...
By Stef dela Cruz, All Voices | 04.04.2014
“If the doctor of a former president gave you the assurance that your daughter will be cured of cancer after...
By Eloise Lynton, The Harvard Independent | 04.04.2014
Last summer, at my cousin’s baby shower, I sat in a room covered in pink from floor to ceiling. Pink...
By Stuart Jeffries, The Guardian | 04.04.2014
Dr Sharon Moalem recently diagnosed a mother with a rare type of hereditary ataxia, a neurological disorder for which there...
By Julie Power, The Sydney Morning Herald | 04.03.2014
For the first time, the NSW Police Force has used DNA testing to screen its newest crop of 189 student...
By Kelly Servick, Science | 04.03.2014
The U.S. Department of Defense’s research arm is making a concerted grasp at biotechnology. On 1 April, the Defense Advanced...
By Alex Stern, Huffington Post | 04.02.2014
Since the development of their field four decades ago, genetic counselors have sought to acquire greater professional standing and increase...
By Alex Stern, HuffPost | 04.02.2014
Since the development of their field four decades ago, genetic counselors have sought to acquire greater professional standing and increase...