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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...

Illustrated vaginal ultrasonography of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome.
By Donna de la Cruz, The New York Times | 10.20.2016

Justine Griffin was 25 when she submitted an application to donate her eggs to a fertility clinic in Florida, detailing...

Four pale hands suggestively wearing suits as their sleeves, hold small amounts of US dollar bills.
By Robert Weisman, The Boston Globe | 10.19.2016

Crispr Therapeutics Inc. stumbled in its initial public offering, more evidence that investors are cooling on the promising gene-editing technology...

A baby sits in front and engages with a laptop.
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Magazine | 10.19.2016

One of the first studies to explore the idea of routinely sequencing the genes of newborns to help guide their...

Illustrated mitochondria
By Sara Reardon, Nature News | 10.19.2016

A baby boy conceived using a controversial technique that mixes DNA from three people seems to be healthy, according to...

Chan Zuckerberg Bio Hub logo in black and white.
By Science FARE (Feminist Anti-Racist Equity) Collective: Jessica Cussins, Kate Weatherford Darling, Ugo Edu, Laura Mamo, Jenny Reardon & Charis Thompson, Nature | 10.19.2016

We have an idea for philanthropists Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg, who last month announced their first major investment in...

A meta-room, that is surrounded by windows shows the outside.
By David Jensen, The Sacramento Bee | 10.19.2016

The California stem cell agency on Wednesday completed creation of a $30 million effort to dramatically speed approval of stem...

Cultured HeLa cells [Wikimedia]
By Danielle Venton, KQED | 10.18.2016

This year marks an anniversary that in all probability flew under your radar: The iPSC is 10-years-old.

Great! you say. What’s...

Three mice lay on top of each other, in a burrowed hole.
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 10.17.2016

In a tour de force of reproductive biology, scientists in Japan have transformed mouse skin cells into eggs in a...