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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 Linda Geddes, New Scientist | 10.30.2013
MOST parents dream of a 5-week-old baby who sleeps through the night, but Aga Warnell knew something was wrong. Her...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 10.29.2013
He founded two genetic-sequencing companies and sold them for hundreds of millions of dollars. He helped to sequence the genomes...
By Daniel Cressey, Nature News Blog | 10.29.2013
Hundreds of thousands of patients have been exposed to potential harm in clinical trials whose results have yet to be...
By Pete Shanks, Huffington Post | 10.28.2013

Dominic Cummings, a senior adviser to the UK Secretary of State for Education, recently provoked a flurry of complaints by...

By Diane Rehm, The Diane Rehm Show | 10.28.2013

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When the human genome was mapped a decade ago, the ability to uncover...

By Ferris Jabr, Scientific American | 10.28.2013

Sometime in the not-too-distant future, Marie and Antonio Freeman step into a doctor’s office to design their next child.

“Your...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 10.27.2013
In today's world, brimful as it is with opinion and falsehoods masquerading as facts, you'd think the one place you...
By Oliver Wainwright, The Guardian | 10.27.2013
A ripe round of brie sits next to a block of farmhouse cheddar, emitting a pungent aroma not dissimilar to...