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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 Sarah Zhang, Wired | 02.26.2016
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You could say that Illumina is to DNA sequencing is what Google is to Internet search, but that...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 02.26.2016
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Marina Stajic worked for nearly three decades as director of the forensic toxicology lab at the medical examiner’s...

By Merrit Kennedy, NPR | 02.26.2016
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The Cleveland Clinic says it has performed the first uterus transplant in the United States.

This opens up...

By Katherine Drabiak, The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 02.26.2016
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Editor’s note: This essay responds to an invitation (issued here and here) to submit commentaries on the...

By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 02.26.2016
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Genetic information company 23andMe Inc.'s "spit kits" will be available at Walgreens stores, a company leader said Friday...

By Donna Dickenson, Project Syndicate | 02.25.2016

The global trade in babies born through commercial surrogacy is slowly being shut down. India, Nepal, Thailand, and Mexico have...

By Jon Brooks, KQED | 02.25.2016
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“The X-Files” revival has gotten some big ratings. Clearly a lot of fans (if not critics) are...

By Indira Lakshamanan, The Diane Rehm Show | 02.25.2016
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Researchers are now capable of creating a human embryo from the DNA of three people. A scientific panel...