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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 Janet Phelan, New Eastern Outlook | 07.11.2016

Dual-use may be best understood by considering the functions of a knife. Used against an enemy, a knife can be...

By Tim Lewis, The Guardian | 07.10.2016

Moments after giving birth, her son not yet in her arms, Lolita Wästerlund had an urgent fear. “Does he have...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 07.08.2016

Two top executives and dozens of other employees of Juno Therapeutics, the company that on Thursday was forced to halt...

By Karen Weintraub, STAT | 07.08.2016

PORTLAND, Ore. — The next great advance in fertility treatments may rest with five young monkeys in a lab outside of...

By Damian Garde, STAT | 07.08.2016

Immune therapies have been hailed as the future of cancer treatments, with new drugs racking up excellent clinical results by...

By Derek Lowe, Science AAAS | 07.08.2016

Late yesterday afternoon, Matthew Herper broke the news that Juno Therapeutics had had their CAR-T leukemia trial put on hold...

By Chuck Stern, BTRtoday | 07.08.2016

What if we could fix a broken moral compass? According to bioethicist and sociologist James J. Hughes of the Institute...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 07.08.2016

Federal regulators have barred Elizabeth Holmes, chief executive of Theranos, from owning or operating a medical laboratory for at least...