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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 Fergus Walsh, BBC News | 06.06.2016

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CRISPR - get to know this acronym. It's good...

By Kevin Rawlinson & Nicola Davis, The Guardian | 06.06.2016

Scientists trying to grow human organs inside pigs in an attempt to tackle a shortage of donors have successfully created...

By Charles Piller, STAT News | 06.06.2016

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Google employees, squeezed onto metal risers and standing in the back of a meeting room, erupted...

By Meghana Keshavan, STAT News | 06.06.2016

Move over, Big Pharma. Big Biotech is coming for you.

As drug developers and investors from around the world gather...

By Celia Luterbacher, Swiss Info | 06.05.2016

Sunday's vote, in which 62.4% of people backed the change, is the second time in a year that the Swiss have...

By Andrew Joseph, STAT News | 06.04.2016
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NEW YORK — Harvard Medical School’s George Church and Stanford University’s Drew Endy are top scientists who have...

By Judith Benz-Schwarzburg & Arianna Ferrari, Slate | 06.03.2016

Animal research is moving rapidly in two divergent directions.

Research on animal cognition, behavior, and welfare is teaching us that...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 06.02.2016
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A group of scientists say they want work toward being able to create a synthetic version of the...