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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 Science Daily, Science Daily | 12.12.2013

Scientists have discovered a second code hiding within DNA. This second code contains information that changes how scientists read the...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 12.12.2013

Doctors, researchers and companies should expect to find information they were not looking for in genetic analyses, imaging scans and...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.11.2013
A plan to finance the California stem cell agency after its $3 billion runs out in 2017 was shunted aside...
By Jane Wakefield, BBC News | 12.09.2013

Raymond McCauley may go blind as he gets older.

He knows this because when he had his genetic code read...

By Paul Elias, Associated Press | 12.09.2013
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California Attorney General Kamala Harris and the Obama administration are urging a federal appeals court to...
By Tom Harvey, The Salt Lake Tribune | 12.09.2013
In the wake of a case that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, Salt Lake City-based...
By Marilynn Marchione, AP | 12.08.2013
In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success...
By USA Today, USA Today | 12.08.2013

In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success...