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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 Chelsea Leu, California Magazine | 09.24.2015
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Stephen Colbert’s assertion notwithstanding, none of us is color blind. Not even the blind, it turns out. That’s...

By Joe Shute, The Telegraph | 09.23.2015

When Daniel Tammet was three years old, he fell down the stairs of the terraced family home he shared with...

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 09.23.2015
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One received a car, another money for college tuition, others cold, hard cash.

Most Canadian women who donate...

By Garry Hamilton, Nature News | 09.23.2015
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In the 1990s, French scientists wanted to see what happened to a mouse brain when they messed with...

By Cari Romm, The Atlantic | 09.23.2015
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At some point during the fall of 2005, Brian Stone grew tired of throwing up in a bucket...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 09.23.2015
Untitled Document Imagine this headline popping up on the Internet and in the New York Times in about four years:...
By Amy Dockser Marcus, Wall Street Journal | 09.21.2015

A blood test that can predict if a fetus will have Down syndrome is growing in popularity. But because it...

By J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Krishanu Saha, & Sheila Jasanoff, Issues in Science and Technology | 09.21.2015

Not since the early, heady days of recombinant DNA (rDNA) has a technique of molecular biology so gripped the scientific...