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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 David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.01.2016

The biggest stem cell story in the country this week reported that at least 570 dubious stem cell clinics exist...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 07.01.2016

Our genes are not just naked stretches of DNA.

They’re coiled into intricate three-dimensional tangles, their lengths decorated with tiny...

By Dan Bilefsky, The New York Times | 06.30.2016

LONDON — A 60-year-old woman determined to use her dead daughter’s frozen eggs to give birth to her own grandchild...

By Dina Fine Maron, Scientific American | 06.30.2016

Patients seeking stem cell therapies for achy joints or shoulder injuries no longer need to hop a plane to Mexico...

By Matt Miller, Slate | 06.29.2016

Scott Brown, the former Massachusetts senator who lost to Elizabeth Warren in the 2012 election, has decided to dredge up...

By Editorial, Nature | 06.28.2016

Jesse Gelsinger was 18 and healthy when he died in 1999 during a gene-therapy experiment. He had a condition called...

By Damian Garde, STAT | 06.27.2016

In biotech, your company is only as good as its intellectual property. And the Supreme Court on Monday left a...

By Kristen V. Brown, Fusion | 06.27.2016

When queried about the present state of biotechnology, Kevin Esvelt tends to sound more like a science skeptic than a...