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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 Pam Belluck, New York Times | 02.26.2014
A test that analyzes fetal DNA found in a pregnant woman’s blood proved much more accurate in screening for Down...
By Molly Redden, Mother Jones | 02.25.2014
South Dakota already has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation. But last week, Republican legislators there...
By Cynthia Fox, BioScience Technology | 02.25.2014
Even Teru Wakayama, a co-author on the Nature reprogramming papers that stunned the stem cell world this month, says he...
By Alejandra Dubcovsky, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 02.24.2014
I love the sciences. Because my father was a scientist, I grew up surrounded by talk of running gels, western...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 02.23.2014
The California stem cell agency has put a little distance between it and its former chairman, Robert Klein, who is...
By Marcy Darnovsky, The New York Times | 02.23.2014

An advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration is set to begin two days of meetings tomorrow to consider...

By Carole Cadwalladr, The Guardian | 02.22.2014
It's hard to know where to start with Ray Kurzweil. With the fact that he takes 150 pills a day...