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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 Jeremy B. White, The Sacramento Bee | 03.04.2015

In 2015, genes have many uses.

Soon after every baby in California is born, a hospital worker extracts and logs...

By Cynthia Fox, BioScience Technology | 03.03.2015

In a move that stunned the stem cell field, the first researcher to create cloned human cells—and to derive embryonic...

By Justine Drennan, Foreign Policy | 03.02.2015
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When Thailand’s parliament passed a law banning most forms of surrogacy late last month, its main motivations were...

By Frederik Joelving, Reuters | 03.02.2015

(Reuters Health) - Renting out their wombs may ease financial problems for poor women in India, but new research...

By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel, Science | 03.02.2015

A damning report on how the University of Minnesota (UM) protects volunteers in its clinical trials concludes that researchers inadequately...

By Nick Stockton, Wired | 03.02.2015

For the last week, an Italian neurosurgeon has been executing a full-blown media offensive, talking up his plan to stitch...

By Marcy Darnovsky, The New York Times | 03.02.2015

Many of us would be delighted to contribute to medical advances. But handing over reams of our genetic, health and...

By Kirsty Oswald, BioNews | 03.02.2015
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You may have come across the story. 'Teenagers more likely to pass on genetic mutations to children,' reported...