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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 Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 07.14.2016

Something strange is going on in medicine. Major diseases, like colon cancer, dementia and heart disease, are waning in...

By Editorial, The Korea Times | 07.13.2016

Embryonic stem cell research will resume soon after the Ministry of Health and Welfare granted conditional approval to a private...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.13.2016

The California stem cell agency is set to award nearly $10 million for a phase 3 clinical trial to produce...

By Jane Qiu, Nature News | 07.12.2016

On the outskirts of Beijing, a small limestone mountain named Dragon Bone Hill rises above the surrounding sprawl. Along the...

By Damian Garde, STAT | 07.12.2016

Federal regulators on Tuesday gave Juno Therapeutics the all-clear to resume testing an experimental cancer treatment, just days after shutting down the...

By Jef Akst, The Scientist | 07.12.2016

Shortly after 8:00 this morning, more than two dozen people filled the small conference room at the National Academies’ Keck...

By Ava Kofman, Alternet | 07.11.2016

Anyone planning a visit to Kuwait later this year may be in for a shock when they find they'll have...

By Ted Greiner, Independent Science News | 07.11.2016

What better way to discredit your critics than to rope in 107 naive Nobel Prize winners (all without relevant expertise)...