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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 Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 06.02.2016
Untitled Document Scientists on Thursday formally announced the start of a 10-year project aimed at vastly improving the ability to...
Image: Character posing with Autodesk Mudbox software, via Flickr. Autodesk is going "all in" with the HGP-Write moonshot.
By Nidhi Subbaraman, BuzzFeed | 06.02.2016
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It’s time to build a synthetic human genome, say a group of famous scientists in an article published...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.01.2016
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Highlights
Layoffs, clinical trial closed
Conflicts of interest
Implications for CIRM
Risk and stem cell research


Twenty years...

By Matthew Schaer, The Atlantic | 06.01.2016
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One evening in November of 2002, Carol Batie was sitting on her living-room couch in Houston, flipping through...

By Nathaniel Comfort, The Atlantic | 06.01.2016
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In the Darwinian struggle of scientific ideas, the gene is surely among the select. It has become the...

By Bernie Monegain, Healthcare IT News | 05.31.2016

The National Institutes of Health announced May 27 it would award $142 million to the Mayo Clinic to establish the...

By Danielle Preiss & Pragati Shahi, The Atlantic | 05.31.2016

For the Australian couple Stephen and Michael, having kids involved people from five different countries. Australian law forbids anyone from...

By Kristina Fiore, MedPage Today | 05.29.2016

When doctors try to figure out whether a patient might become addicted to opioid painkillers, they rely on clinical risk...