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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...

By Elizabeth Woyke, MIT Technology Review | 07.25.2016

Colon cancer is less common in India than in the U.S., but it tends to affect younger people and...

By Arlene Weintraub, MIT Technology Review | 07.25.2016

At Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) in La Jolla, California, more than two dozen machines work around the clock, sequencing...

By Jocelyn Stried, Margaret Hayden, Rahul Nayajk & Cameron Nutt, STAT | 07.25.2016

In the wake of the brutal killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castille, Delrawn Small, and police officers in Dallas and...

By Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, The Guardian | 07.25.2016

The astute woman of child-bearing age develops a facility to tune out of alarmist headlines about the biological clock...

By Chung Hyun-chae, The Korea Times | 07.24.2016

Korea's Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) has rejected the registration of a stem cell line, dubbed NT-1, created...

By Dara Mohammadi & Nicola Davis, The Guardian | 07.24.2016

Elizabeth Parrish is CEO of BioViva, a Seattle-based biotech company working to develop treatments to slow the ageing process...

By Yang Xi, Global Times | 07.24.2016

Zhang Wenyong, a 44-year-old father in Beijing, did a genetic test on his two daughters. His girls are only two...

By Daniel Bice, Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel | 07.24.2016

Jay Timmons and Rick Olson expected little legal trouble when they filed papers in Dane County Circuit Court last year...