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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 Kevin Ellis, Shelby Star | 07.07.2016

A bill passed by the the U.S. House this week would help victims of forced sterilization programs from being hurt...

By Ryan Gabrielson & Topher Sanders, The New York Times | 07.07.2016

Amy Albritton can’t remember if her boyfriend signaled when he changed lanes late that August afternoon in 2010. But suddenly...

By Sarah Hartley, The Conversation | 07.07.2016

Genetically modified crops are safe for human consumption and have the potential to feed the world and improve human health...

By Barack Obama, The Boston Globe | 07.07.2016

Health care is always personal. As science and technology have advanced, it’s become possible to make it personalized as...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Magazine | 07.07.2016

President Barack Obama’s ambitious 1-million-person personalized medicine study began to take shape this week with the announcement of four medical...

By Elizabeth Preston, STAT | 07.07.2016
When physicist Alex Zhavoronkov looked in the mirror one day and saw alarming swelling around his eyes, he guessed it...
By Clare Wilson, New Scientist | 07.07.2016

Can light restore hearing in deaf people? Researchers hope that through optogenetics, they can use micro-LED lights to make...

By Alice Bell, The Guardian | 07.06.2016

Brexit has thrown British science into a mess. During this period of political upheaval, it might be tempting to...