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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...

Apples are displayed in a grocery market's produce stand.
By Dana Perls, STAT | 02.02.2017

The apple that never browns wants to change your mind about genetically modified foods.”

That headline in the Washington Post...

Illustrated image of a human hand holding a pipette onto three test tubes. The pipette appears to be inserting an onion sample. The test tubes have arrows pointing to an incubator labeled "PCR." Together, this image suggests to be a Do-It-Yourself Kit.
By Kristen V. Brown, Gizmodo | 01.31.2017

David Ishee’s plan was simple, if not exactly free of complication. From the shed that functions as his laboratory in...

Two generic passports are covered by a stamp block turned on its side.
By Chelsea Whyte, New Scientist | 01.31.2017

On Friday, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that denies Syrian refugees entry to the US, suspends all refugee admissions for...

The belly of a pregnant woman lying down is featured. The photo is filtered in sepia tone.
By Jean Hopfensperger, Star Tribune | 01.28.2017

Battle pits infertile couples against faith groups, who call it "renting a womb." 

Ann and Chris Carda received a phone...

A woman is resting on a hospital bed
By Emily Woodruff, STAT | 01.28.2017

When Catherine Fonseca volunteered as an egg donor, the intake form asked for her SAT scores.

It did not ask...

A container is filled with cotton swabs.
By Eli Rosenberg, The New York Times | 01.27.2017

The leads have dried up in the killing of a young woman in Queens during a jog last summer.

Tips...

Railroad tracks are blocked by a buffer stop.
By GenomeWeb, GenomeWeb | 01.26.2017

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) today issued a statement urging against clinical genome editing in human...

Four pigs pear over a metal bar.
By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 01.26.2017

Prospect of growing human organs for transplantation raised by creation of first ever embryos combining two large, distantly related species...