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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 Louise Watt, US News & World Report | 05.29.2016

BEIJING (AP) — China's decision to allow all married couples to have two children is driving a surge in demand...

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By Lydia Willgress, The Telegraph [UK] | 05.27.2016
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A British scientist will be able to genetically modify human embryos after being given the go ahead from...

By Tina Vasquez, Rewire | 05.27.2016
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The same white supremacy that declared Black men and women to be hypersexual also subjected troubled or abused...

By Jody Allard, Vice | 05.27.2016

The first time a doctor told me he had no idea what was wrong with me, I was six or...

By Martin Enserink, Science Magazine | 05.27.2016

In what European science chief Carlos Moedas calls a "life-changing" move, E.U. member states today agreed on an ambitious new open-access...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 05.27.2016

The history of African-Americans has been shaped in part by two great journeys.

The first brought hundreds of thousands of...

By Agence France-Presse, The Guardian | 05.27.2016

The Dutch government has announced it wants to allow growing human embryos “under strict and limited conditions” for scientific research...

By Joe Matthews (Zócalo Public Square), Huffington Post | 05.27.2016

Near the end of a wide-ranging conversation about the complexity of the human genome and the history and future of...