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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 The Guardian , The Guardian | 01.01.2015

Most cases of cancer are largely the result of bad luck rather than unhealthy lifestyles, diet or inherited genes, new...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 12.30.2014
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The year in biotechnology began with a landmark event. A decade after the first human genome was decoded...

By Editorial, Nature | 12.30.2014

Physics, chemistry, biology and the environmental sciences can deliver wonderful solutions to some of the challenges facing individuals and societies...

By Jennifer J. Kulynych and Hank Greely, Slate | 12.30.2014
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Personalized medicine, the hoped-for use of the information in our genes to inform our medical care, may end...

By John Kass, Chicago Tribune | 12.27.2014
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Jayne and Jon Cornwill, an Australian couple, recently came to America with a bit of trouble.

The trouble...

By Clair Achmad, The Conversation | 12.25.2014
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This year the international spotlight turned with full-force on cross-border commercial surrogacy. The reality of children being born...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 12.24.2014
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In 1924, the State of Virginia attempted to define what it means to be white.

The state’s Racial...

By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 12.24.2014
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Scientists have made primitive forms of artificial sperm and eggs in a medical feat that could transform the...