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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 Tarek Bazley, Al Jazeera | 06.09.2016
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Seven years after creating their first organoid - a three-dimensional organ-bud grown in a test tube - Dutch researchers say the...

By Christopher Moraff, The Daily Beast | 06.09.2016

Marlon Jones was arrested for taking legal painkillers, prescribed to him by a doctor, after a double knee replacement.

Jones...

By Jim Thomas, The Guardian | 06.09.2016

If there is a prize for the fastest emerging tech controversy of the century the ‘gene drive’ may have...

By Joel Achenbach, The Washington Post | 06.08.2016

It is premature to fight malaria, Zika, Lyme and other diseases with genetically engineered insects or other animals that have been...

By Nelson Michael & Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 06.08.2016

With an election round the corner, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is coming to the end...

By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 06.07.2016
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If you are interested in the buying and selling of human eggs, you might want to take in...

By Meghana Keshavan, STAT News | 06.07.2016

SAN FRANCISCO — Uncle Sam wants you to turn over your health records. And Dr. Robert Califf, the cardiologist who...

By Laurie McGinley, The Washington Post | 06.06.2016

CHICAGO — Vice President Biden on Monday announced the launch of a first-of-its kind, open-access cancer database to allow researchers...