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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 Alice Park, Time | 09.12.2014
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Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan surgically transplanted a sheet of retinal pigment cells...

By Cailin O’Connor, Slate | 09.11.2014
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Is our behavior determined by genetics, or are we products of our environments? What matters more for the...

By David Cyranoski, Nature News Blog | 09.11.2014

New leaked e-mails showing the comments of referees for Science and Nature provide more insight into the saga of the...

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 09.10.2014

A Japanese patient with a debilitating eye disease is about to become the first person to be treated with induced...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 09.10.2014
BERKELEY, Ca. -- Directors of the California stem cell agency today approved a measure aimed at easing conflicts of interest...
By Nina Liss-Schultz, RH Reality Check | 09.10.2014
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San Francisco might become the first city to explicitly condemn sex-selective abortion bans, if a resolution introduced Tuesday...

By Editorial, Nature | 09.09.2014
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It is perhaps unexpected that the United States — the oft-lampooned home of patents on peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches and...

By Julia Belluz, Vox | 09.09.2014

All his life, Neil Schwartzman searched for his biological family. He was adopted in 1960 at 10 days old, and...