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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...

Portrait photo of Osagie Obasogie.
By Sara Grossman, Haas Institute, UC Berkeley | 12.02.2016

Osagie K. Obasogie is the new Haas endowed chair of the Haas Institute's Diversity and Health Disparities research cluster. Obasogie, Professor...

Close -up photo of Donald Trump at a press conference.
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 12.01.2016

Of all the memorable lines from this year’s election, the one I keep returning to months later—for self-interested reasons—is from...

Magnifying glass
By Martin H. Johnson, Reproductive BioMedicine Online | 12.01.2016

This editorial comments on a paper from Chen et al. (2016)), published in this issue of RBM Online, in...

A man dressed in scrubs peers into a large microscope-like device and examines a specimen.
By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 11.30.2016

Specialists poised to offer mitochondrial replacement therapy if government’s fertility regulator approves the treatment

Doctors will seek permission this month...

Mitochondria mammalian lung
By Karen Weintraub, Scientific American | 11.30.2016

A promising technique to prevent mothers from passing on devastating mitochondrial diseases was thrown a biological curve ball this week...

Portrait of Steve Bannon.
By Laurel Raymond, Think Progress | 11.28.2016

Former Breitbart head Steve Bannon has been a national lightning rod ever since he was appointed CEO of Donald Trump’s...

A genome sequence printed inside of a book.
By Alex Harding, Xconomy | 11.28.2016

Scientists are engineering a new living thing: a radically modified version of the lowly bacterium E. coli. In an ...

Molecular image of an egg.
By Deborah Cohen, BBC Panorama | 11.28.2016

Nearly all costly add-on treatments offered by UK fertility clinics to increase the chance of a birth through IVF are...