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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 Shelby Capacio, Fox 9 | 11.17.2013
A petition drive is under way, calling on Gov. Mark Dayton to order an investigation of the University of Minnesota...
By Joshua Keating, Slate | 11.15.2013
Give the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee credit for unpredictability. All the signals sent out before this week’s highly-anticipated third...
By William A. Schambra, The New Atlantis | 11.15.2013
Philanthropy has many wonderful qualities — and never tires of proclaiming them, for one quality it sorely lacks is humility...
By Hispanic Business, Hispanic Business | 11.14.2013

ETC Group and Friends of the Earth are launching a public design and branding competition to shine a spotlight on...

By Kingsley Napley, Claire Wood and Katie Newbury, Lexology | 11.14.2013

The number of couples entering into surrogacy arrangements has been steadily rising in recent years, including gay couples keen to...

By Daniella Silva and Tracy Connor, NBC News | 11.14.2013
Ohio's governor has postponed the execution of a child-killer so he can study his offer to donate organs — a...
By Connie St Louis, The Conversation | 11.14.2013
Reflecting on her imminent departure as head of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, the body that regulates IVF and...
By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 11.14.2013
IT'S huge and it could help cure cancer. That's the aim, anyway, of the world's largest cancer database, launched this...