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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 David Dobbs, Aeon Magazine | 12.03.2013
A couple of years ago, at a massive conference of neuroscientists — 35,000 attendees, scores of sessions going at any...
By Gary Robbins, UT San Diego | 12.03.2013
A San Diego County woman has filed a lawsuit seeking class-action status against 23andMe, alleging that the company knowingly misled...
By Robert Klitzman, Bloomberg | 12.03.2013
Over the past decade, we have heard about the “fat gene,” the “diabetes gene,” the “alcoholism gene,” the “intelligence gene,”...
By Robert Klitzman, Bloomberg | 12.03.2013
Over the past decade, we have heard about the “fat gene,” the “diabetes gene,” the “alcoholism gene,” the “intelligence gene,”...
By Amy Klein, The New York Times | 12.03.2013
I love casinos. The sounds, the lights, the corny decadence. … I love it all, except for one thing: I...
By GEN, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 12.03.2013

Frustrated by slow progress in gene therapy, a team of scientists opted for an unconventional approach. Instead of relying on...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 12.01.2013
Certain fears can be inherited through the generations, a provocative study of mice reports1. The authors suggest that...
By Karuna Jaggar, Huffington Post | 12.01.2013
This week the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a warning letter to the direct-to-consumer genetic testing company 23andMe, demanding...