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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 Maura Dolan, The Los Angeles Times | 12.03.2014

A state appeals court decided unanimously Wednesday that California’s practice of taking DNA from people arrested for felonies -- though...

By Laura Hercher, The New York Times | 12.03.2014

To the Editor:

In “The Downside of Resilience” (Sunday Review, Nov. 30), Jay Belsky points to evidence that...

By Michelle Roberts and Paul Rincon, BBC | 12.02.2014
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A personal DNA test that has sparked controversy in the US has launched in the UK.

The UK's...

By Rory Cellan-Jones, BBC | 12.02.2014

Prof Stephen Hawking, one of Britain's pre-eminent scientists, has said that efforts to create thinking machines pose a threat to...

By Ben A. Minteer, Center for Humans and Nature | 12.01.2014

The Center for Humans and Nature and The Hastings Center have partnered on a series called, How far should we...

By Stuart A. Newman, The Huffington Post | 12.01.2014

The British Parliament appears poised to give the go-ahead to a set of techniques for generating infants which, if implemented...

By Dr. Ainsley Newson, BioNews | 12.01.2014
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Geneticist Razib Khan's decision to obtain the whole genome sequence of his partner's fetus in utero shows us...

By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 12.01.2014
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Enzymes that don't exist in nature have been made from genetic material that doesn't exist in nature either...