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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 Osagie Obasogie, Scientific American | 01.10.2014

Adapted from Blinded by Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind, by Osagie K. Obasogie. Published by...

By Sadie Gurman, Denver Post | 01.10.2014
A malfunction in a DNA processing machine led to the scrambling of samples from 11 Denver police burglary cases, officials...
By Nigel Duara, Associated Press / Seattle Post Intelligencer | 01.10.2014
The Oregon Medical Board has issued a rare emergency suspension of a Eugene physician's license after the doctor conducted experimental...
By Macrina Cooper-White, The Huffington Post | 01.08.2014

Scientists have long known that experiencing racism is bad for your health. In fact, racial discrimination has been linked to...

By Genome Web, Genome Web | 01.08.2014

A company and its former subsidiary have settled with the US Federal Trade Commission, which said the companies' advertising...

By Ian Sample, The Guardian [UK] | 01.08.2014

Children born after IVF treatment have a greater risk of complications ranging from preterm birth to neonatal death, according to...

By Paresh Dave, Los Angeles Times | 01.07.2014

A judge ruled Tuesday that DNA evidence that led to accused Grim Sleeper serial killer Lonnie Franklin Jr. was lawfully...

By Alison Abbott, Nature | 01.07.2014
A series of damning documents seen by Nature expose deep concerns over the safety and efficacy of the controversial stem-cell...