News

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 Beth Garbitelli, Portland Press Herald | 07.12.2014
Untitled Document

MONTPELIER, Vt. —The Vermont Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state can’t collect DNA from suspects in criminal...

By Zelda Bronstein, 48 Hills | 07.11.2014

In recent weeks 48 hills has revealed that the Planning Department’s lax enforcement of San Francisco’s zoning laws has allowed...

By Lenny Bernstein, Washington Post | 07.11.2014
I’m not betting on it, but if, by some miracle, Argentine winger Angel Di Maria is on the pitch against...
By Steve Rennie, The Canadian Press | 07.10.2014

OTTAWA—Canada’s privacy watchdog is urging insurance companies and others to stop asking for access to the results of existing genetic...
By Dan Koboldt, MassGenomics | 07.10.2014

I first started MassGenomics in the early days of next-gen sequencing, when Illumina was called “Solexa” and came in fragment-end...

By Laurie Garrett, Foreign Policy | 07.10.2014
In every one of the dozens of bioterrorism meetings I have attended over the last three decades, experts have stated...
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 07.10.2014
Untitled Document

Starving a pregnant mouse can cause changes in the sperm of her sons that apparently warp the health...

By David Dobbs, The New York Times | 07.10.2014
Untitled Document

In his 2007 book “A Farewell to Alms,” the economic historian Gregory Clark argued that the English came...