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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 Aubrey Sanders, BreakThru Radio | 01.16.2016
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One of the most profoundly consequential debates modern science has ever faced is unfolding at this very moment...

By Lindsey Hoshaw, KQED | 01.15.2016
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This isn’t an everyday patent dispute.

This is a battle for who invented the powerful gene-editing technique that...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 01.14.2016
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California’s ambitious, $18 million effort to develop -- in relatively short order -- a stem cell therapy for...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 01.13.2016
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LaQuenta Caldwell-Moody considered it improper when a pharmacy sales representative tried to take her teenage son, when he...

By Elena Kadvany, Palo Alto Weekly | 01.13.2016
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What began as one Jordan Middle School seventh-grader's research project on the questionable history of the school's namesake...

By Phys.org, Phys.org | 01.13.2016

Sperm that don't swim well rank high among the main causes of infertility. To give these cells a boost, women...

By Fiona MacRae, The Daily Mail [UK] | 01.13.2016
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Genetically-modified human embryos could be made in a British lab within months.

The fertility regulator will meet tomorrow...

By Andelka Phillips, The Conversation | 01.12.2016
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Getting your DNA sequenced is now so cheap and easy that you don’t need to see a medical...