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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 David Cyranoski, Nature News | 02.25.2016
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Researchers in China say that they have discovered a way to make rudimentary mouse sperm in a dish...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 02.24.2016
Untitled Document A Chinese firm that says it has the technology to clone human beings has invested $15 million in...
By Ava Kofman, The Public Domain Review | 02.24.2016
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A complex pattern is capable of suggesting various readings, as the figuring on a wall-paper may suggest a...
By Ava Kofman, New Republic | 02.24.2016
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Your DNA can now be read in less time than it would take to wait at a typical...

By Martha Rosenberg, AlterNet | 02.24.2016
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It is hard to believe only four senators opposed the confirmation of Robert Califf, who was approved today...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 02.23.2016
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Ruthie Weiss’s basketball team seemed to be minutes away from its fourth straight loss. But even as she...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 02.23.2016
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New gene editing technologies like the CRISPR-Cas9 technique hold great promise for medicine and the biological sciences. Some...

By Bloomberg News, Bloomberg News | 02.23.2016

U.S. companies racing to develop a promising gene editing technology are up against a formidable competitor -- the Chinese government.

China...