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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 Christina Farr, Venture Beat | 11.20.2013
In September, Google announced a mysterious new venture to combat death itself.

Google’s top executives didn’t say much about the...
By John Fowler, KTVU | 11.20.2013

BERKELEY, Calif. — Parents will do just about anything to improve what they see as their children’s chance for success...

By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 11.20.2013
The expanding use of genetic testing is having an unforeseen consequence: More people are being told they have genes for...
By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 11.20.2013

The genome of a young boy buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia some 24,000 years ago has...

By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 11.19.2013
In recent years, DNA variants in two different genes have been linked to how much blood thinner a patient needs...
By Dr Stuart Hogarth, BioNews | 11.18.2013
Last week saw the launch of the UK arm of the Personal Genome Project (PGP). This is the second major...
By Bruno Waterfield, Telegraph | 11.17.2013
Belgium needs a universal DNA database to fight crime with samples to be taken from every newborn baby or foreigner...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 11.17.2013
MOJAVE NATIONAL PRESERVE, Calif. — J. Craig Venter, the maverick scientist, is looking for a new world to conquer —...