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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 Charlie Cooper, The Independent | 11.13.2013
Limits on the number of twins and triplets that can be born as a result of IVF treatment have been...
By Jon Walker, USA Today | 11.13.2013
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — A philanthropist who made his money as a credit card provider is giving $100 million to...
By Jonathan Webber, Genomics Law Report | 11.12.2013
The September 24, 2013 grant of a patent to 23andMe for “gamete donor selection based on genetic calculations” has stirred...
By Dr Steven Fleming, BioNews | 11.11.2013
Professor Lisa Jardine, chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has recently criticised the overuse of intra-cytoplasmic sperm...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 11.11.2013
The plague of non-reproducibility in science may be mostly due to scientists’ use of weak statistical tests, as shown by...
By Belle Boggs, Indy Week | 11.09.2013
Elaine Riddick was 14 when she was sterilized by the state of North Carolina, immediately following the birth, by cesarean...
By Megan Allyse and Marsha Michie, The Wall Street Journal | 11.08.2013
In the 1997 film "Gattaca," wealthy parents regularly use what's called preimplantation genetic diagnosis to pick children with the most...
By Jim Hightower, Boulder Weekly | 11.07.2013
It’s always inspiring to see global corporate giants crush small farmers, stomp on nature, circumvent our laws by hook or...