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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 Pete Shanks, Biopolitical Times | 12.19.2013

For better and worse, 2013 has been a year in which several related issues familiar to those who follow human...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 12.19.2013
Researchers have  for the first time determined the genome sequence of human egg cells without destroying them.

The feat, reported...
By Dan Vergano, National Geographic | 12.19.2013
Advances in our understanding of the brain have turned neuroscience into one of the hottest frontiers in research, and in...
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 12.19.2013
In May 2004 Daniel Markingson, a patient with schizophrenia in an anti-psychotic drug trial at the University of Minnesota in...
By Laasya Samhita, New Scientist | 12.19.2013
Imagine if we could turn back time. A team that has identified a new way in which cells age has...
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 12.18.2013
In 2005, Tania Simoncelli managed to shock the senior lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Simoncelli, the organization’s...
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 12.18.2013
In 2005, Tania Simoncelli managed to shock the senior lawyer at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Simoncelli, the organization’s...
By Amanda Schaffer, MIT Technology Review | 12.17.2013

Pregnant women and their partners can already peer at an unborn child’s chromosomes: with amniocentesis, they can learn about the...