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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.

"These are saliva...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Louise Kinross, Bloom | 03.06.2014
It’s on the list.

My son’s rare genetic deletion is on the list of disorders identified by microarray analysis...
By Nathaniel Comfort, Genotopia | 03.06.2014
My feed is full of stories about “three-parent babies” and whether they are a eugenic threat. Predictably, Art Caplan, the...
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Boston Globe | 03.06.2014
In an effort to bring clarity to one of the most controversial and confusing scientific findings in recent memory...
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 03.06.2014
The number of sequenced human genomes will soon jump from the thousands to the millions. But a recently established high-profile...
By Denise Grady, The New York Times | 03.05.2014

The idea of genetically altering people’s cells to make them resist the virus that causes AIDS may seem like a...

By Virginia Hughes, Nature | 03.05.2014

When Brian Dias became a father last October, he was, like any new parent, mindful of the enormous responsibility that...

By Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | 03.04.2014
Human genome sequencing pioneer J. Craig Venter has jumped with both feet into biomedical sequencing with his latest venture, Human...
By Leah Ramsey, Berman Institute Bioethics Bulletin | 03.04.2014
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a historic public meeting last week, considering for the first time experiments...