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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 The Times Editorial Board, The Los Angeles Times | 06.16.2016

As part of the $171-billion budget deal struck by California lawmakers, a failed 20-year experiment in social engineering that tried...

By Andrew Joseph, Stat News | 06.16.2016

In a step that could lead to a new diabetes treatment, several Boston-area hospitals have teamed up with the Harvard...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.16.2016

A federal safety board next week will consider the first human use of the gene-editing technology CRISPR, according to the...

By Richard Nchabi Kamwi, STAT | 06.15.2016

As the spread of mosquito-borne diseases has captured headlines in recent months, so too has a novel approach to mosquito...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 06.15.2016

Drugs that act by modifying a patient’s genes are close to approval in the United States, and one is already...

By Megan Scudellari, Nature | 06.15.2016

“We have colonies.”

Shinya Yamanaka looked up in surprise at the postdoc who had spoken. “We have colonies,” Kazutoshi Takahashi...

By Ted Morrow, Ted's Blog | 06.14.2016

This is an important paper because it may well be the last published set of experiments from the Newcastle group...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.14.2016

A startup called Strata Oncology says it plans to give away advanced genetic tests to 100,000 patients struggling with cancer...