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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.

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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 Express News Service, The New Indian Express | 07.27.2016

KOCHI: IN a first in India, doctors used Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD), a process of genetic profiling of embryos prior...

By Debra Cassens Weiss, ABA Journal Daily News | 07.27.2016

A same-sex married couple who hoped to become parents of a third child with the help of a surrogate mother...

By Karoun Demirjian, The Washington Post | 07.27.2016

This was the year the government was going to start helping injured veterans and members of the military maintain their...

By Daphne Martschenko, The Conversation | 07.26.2016

Researchers at King’s College London say they are able to predict educational achievement from DNA alone. Using a new type...

By Kaleigh Rogers, VICE Motherboard | 07.26.2016

Learning about the genetic markers stored in your DNA can be an illuminating experience, even a life-altering one. Now...

By Emily Bazar, The Washington Post | 07.26.2016

Linda Smith learned last summer that she was losing significant cartilage in her knees, a consequence of a lifetime spent...

By David Masci, Pew Research Center | 07.26.2016

Human enhancement is at least as old as human civilization. People have been trying to enhance their physical and mental...

By Ed Cara, Medical Daily | 07.26.2016

Fond as we are of superheroes on the big screen, most of us would stop short of actually becoming one via...