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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 Twila Brase, US News & World Report | 05.01.2014
Newborn screening is practiced nationwide to detect rare conditions that may be life-threatening or require medical attention. Shortly after birth...
By Gayle Tzemach Lemmon, Council on Foreign Relations | 05.01.2014

For more than a century, cultural norms and traditions in India and elsewhere have favored sons over daughters—a preference based...

By New Scientist, New Scientist | 04.30.2014

"SINCE what works in sheep is likely to be possible in humans, we are suddenly propelled right past the imagined...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 04.30.2014
 BURLINGAME, Ca. – Directors of the California stem cell agency today selected Randy Mills, the former CEO of Osiris Therapeutics...
By Alison Abbott, Nature | 04.29.2014

An analysis of clinical studies that use adult stem cells to treat heart disease has raised questions about the value...

By Helen Briggs, BBC | 04.29.2014

A mother's diet around the time of conception can permanently influence her baby's DNA, research suggests.

Animal experiments show diet...

By Victoria Parsons, Medium | 04.28.2014
Everyday, checking; everyday, hoping. When the acceptance email from the journal finally arrived, a feeling of elation.

“Getting your first...

By Insoo Hyun, Nature | 04.28.2014

Three independent research teams have now used cloning technology to make human embryonic stem cells carrying the genomes of existing...