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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 Benedict Carey, The New York Times | 06.27.2016

New York University’s medical school has quietly shut down eight studies at its prominent psychiatric research center and parted...

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By The Economist, The Economist | 06.25.2016

The project to understand the human genome has long promised to revolutionise the way that diseases are diagnosed, drugs are...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 06.25.2016

It is tempting to provide an alarmist answer to this question. Yet it is wise to avoid the apocalyptic tone...

By Tim Buckland, Star News Online | 06.25.2016

LELAND -- After years of battles with the state, Elnora Mills is still waiting for a final payment from a...

By Ben Adams, Fierce Biotech | 06.24.2016
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CRISPR Therapeutics has raised an additional $38 million as part of its Series B raise, bringing its total...

By Bun Sengkong & Will Jackson, The Phnom Penh Post | 06.23.2016

Despite a veil of secrecy, details are beginning to emerge about Cambodia’s burgeoning commercial surrogacy industry.

In an article on...

By Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times | 06.23.2016

The House of Representatives on Thursday passed an appropriations bill that includes a provision to pay for assisted reproductive technology...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 06.23.2016

Now that a federal biosafety and bioethics committee has approved what would be the first use of the trailblazing genome-editing...