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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 Lisa M. Krieger, San Jose Mercury News | 05.09.2015

Will the University of California reap the financial rewards of CRISPR's commercial use, likely worth billions of dollars? That's the...

By Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 05.08.2015

A new rumor is spreading that Apple may be leveraging its ubiquity to encourage iPhone owners to participate in DNA...

By Rafael Romo, CNN | 05.08.2015

(CNN)An American couple who say they have been stuck in Mexico for weeks because officials there won't provide a birth...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 05.07.2015
Here's something that might sound strange: There are companies now that print and sell DNA.

This trend — which uses...

By Alice Park, Time | 05.07.2015

Doctors in Canada have begun a new chapter in medical history, delivering the first in a wave of babies expected...

By Tina Hesman Saey, ScienceNews | 05.06.2015
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Sci-fi novels and films like Gattaca no longer have a monopoly on genetically engineered humans. Real research scripts...

By Editorial, Nature | 05.06.2015

The news last month that scientists had edited the genomes of human embryos induced a predictable sharp intake of breath...