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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 Youkyung Lee, Associated Press | 10.24.2014
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The whistleblower who exposed breakthrough cloning research as a devastating fake says South Korea is still dominated by...

By Ben Riley-Smith, Telegraph | 10.23.2014

Foreigners will be allowed to undergo controversial IVF treatment creating 'three-parent babies' in Britain if Parliament green-lights the treatment, a...

By Marcy Darnovsky, RH Reality Check | 10.23.2014

News about Silicon Valley’s egg-freezing perk has ignited many much-needed conversations about the tech industry’s family-unfriendly workplaces and policies that...

By Josh Dean, Bloomberg Businessweek | 10.22.2014
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Behind glass in a never-before-used operating room inside a just-built cabin at the end of a freshly paved...

By Benedict Carey, The New York Times | 10.21.2014

A Polish man who was paralyzed from the chest down after a knife attack several years ago is now able...

By David Rotman, MIT Technology Review | 10.21.2014

The signs of the gap—really, a chasm—between the poor and the super-rich are hard to miss in Silicon Valley. On...

By Elie Dolgin, Nature | 10.21.2014

Stacy Hodgkinson and Amy Lewin had the best of intentions when they enrolled the pregnant 15-year-old in their study. The...

By Sarah Knapton, Telegraph | 10.20.2014

Twins born through fertility treatment and their mothers are far more likely to suffer problems than single births, new studies...