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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...

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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 Rosie Mestel, Los Angeles Times | 07.06.2012

Scientists can now sequence the entire genome of a fetus from samples of a pregnant woman’s blood, several recent studies...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 07.06.2012

In what could be a landmark case, six patients in California are suing one of the world’s largest stem-cell companies...

By Steve Mills, Chicago Tribune | 07.06.2012

When Cook County prosecutors brought Cleveland Barrett to trial earlier this year for the predatory criminal sexual assault of a...
By Rosie Mestel, Los Angeles Times | 07.06.2012

Scientists can now sequence the entire genome of a fetus from samples of a pregnant woman’s blood, several recent studies...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News | 07.06.2012

In what could be a landmark case, six patients in California are suing one of the world’s largest stem-cell companies...

By Rebecca Brice, ABC News | 07.05.2012

Australian researchers have discovered that the rate of perinatal deaths in IVF (in vitro fertilisation) can be considerably reduced when...

By Rebecca Brice, ABC News | 07.05.2012

Australian researchers have discovered that the rate of perinatal deaths in IVF (in vitro fertilisation) can be considerably reduced when...

By Meghan Neal, New York Daily News | 07.04.2012

A California woman is suing the federal government, arguing she should have the right to be artificially inseminated by a...