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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 Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 10.15.2013
Regulators in the United States are considering whether to permit trials of a controversial assisted-reproduction technique intended to help women...
By Polly Toynbee, The Guardian | 10.14.2013
Sliding into reverse: that's the unwelcome finding of Alan Milburn's social mobility and child poverty commission to be published this...
By Elizabeth Murphy, Fast Company | 10.14.2013
There's a lot you can do for your child with 99 dollars.

You can purchase 14 gallons of organic milk...
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Boston Globe | 10.14.2013
CAMBRIDGE — Anne Morriss’s first step toward starting a company to test the DNA of women and their prospective sperm...
By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 10.14.2013
This week’s Retro Report video tells the story of Dolly the sheep, the first clone of an adult mammal. The...
By Science Daily, Science Daily | 10.12.2013

Oct. 12, 2013 — New research from the University of California, Davis, shows that the tiny proportion of a cell's...

By Zoë Corbyn, The Guardian | 10.12.2013
Craig Venter reclines in his chair, puts his feet up on his desk and – gently stroking his milk chocolate-coloured...
By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 10.12.2013
In recent years Oxford bioethicist Julian Savulescu has written extensively about the neuro-enhancement of human relationships. In a number of...