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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 Kieran Campbell, news.com.au | 10.10.2013
AUSTRALIAN parents who want to choose the gender of their children have been locked into expensive overseas treatments after a...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 10.09.2013
BURLINGAME, Ca. -- Directors of the California stem cell agency today mulled over a recommendation that they focus intensely on...
By Rob Stein, NPR | 10.09.2013

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The federal government is considering whether to allow scientists to...

By Jill Werman Harris, New York Times | 10.07.2013
When Tracy Dunbrook, a bioethicist in Sherman, Conn., tested positive for the BRCA gene mutation, she was told she had...
By Lauran Neergard, Associated Press / Seattle Post Intelligencer | 10.07.2013
WASHINGTON (AP) — Little Amelia Sloan became a pioneer shortly after her birth.

The healthy baby is part of a...
By Arlene Bynon, The Arlene Bynon Show | 10.07.2013

The Arlene Bynon Show on SiriusXM radio is a national affairs show airing weekdays from 4 - 6pm eastern time...

By Nick Collins, The Telegraph [UK] | 10.04.2013

A group of 34 European politicians, including eight British MPs and peers, has signed a declaration attacking plans which will...

By John Horgan, Scientific American | 10.04.2013

Last spring, I kicked up a kerfuffle by proposing that research on race and intelligence, given its potential for...