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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...

An open bottle of prescribed medicine lays on top of several US dollar bills. The pills from the bottle are spread spilling over.
By Ed Silverman, STAT | 12.12.2016

Imagine being prescribed a medicine when neither your doctor nor the manufacturer has any clue whether it will actually work...

Folders from storage filing cabinet are lined on a table.
By Ronnie Cohen, Reuters Health | 12.12.2016

Hundreds of Californians who were forcibly sterilized based on eugenics laws in the last century might still be alive and...

A pale baby's hand is shown holding a flower.
By Michael Le Page, New Scientist | 12.09.2016

Many more three-parent babies will soon be on their way. A clinic in Mexico is planning to use the technique...

DNA Printout
By Chau Lam, Newsday | 12.09.2016

A day after the Queens district attorney announced he’d asked the state to approve a new type of DNA analysis...

A court gavel lays on top of a court ruling book.
By Sara Reardon, Nature | 12.07.2016

It was a tough day in US patent court for the University of California, Berkeley.

On 6 December, lawyers for...

Several chess pieces are photographed in black and white, with an emphasized black king piece standing tall.
By Sheila Kaplan, STAT | 12.05.2016

Sponsors of the 21st Century Cures Act call it a win-win: a fusion of funds for medical research with new...

Black and white photo of a woman laying in a hospital bed.
By Geeta Nargund, BioNews | 12.05.2016

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Severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is a serious and potentially fatal condition caused by overstimulation of...

Microscopic image of stem cell.
By David Wagner, KPBS | 12.05.2016

San Diego-based Stemgenex is asking regulators to let patients have access to stem cell treatments it calls "life-altering." But patients...