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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 Center for Environmental Health , Center for Environmental Health [Mentions CGS's Jessica Cussins] | 09.30.2013

In this episode, three stories of science gone wrong: distorted science, unethical science, and just plain nutty science. We learn...

By Stephanie M. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.30.2013

Anand, India - Eyes pressed shut, jaw clenched, Manisha Parmar strained beneath the delivery room lights. The exquisite pain of...

By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 09.30.2013

Though many gene therapies have been tested in patients around the world in hopes of curing hereditary diseases, few governments...

By Nita Bhalla and Mansi Thapliyal, Reuters | 09.30.2013
ANAND, India, Sept 30 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Dressed in a green surgical gown and cap, British restaurateur Rekha Patel...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 09.30.2013
The $3 billion California stem cell agency is predicting that “human healthcare will be greatly improved” by stem cell research...
By Kat Chow, NPR | 09.29.2013

Law professor Osagie Obasogie walked into a movie theater to see "Ray," a biopic about the musician Ray Charles, and...

By Kat Chow, WGBH News | 09.26.2013

On Wednesday, the MacArthur Foundation announced its newest class of fellows — "geniuses" who have made remarkable contributions to their...

By Sheldon Krimsky, Tufts Medicine, Summer 2013 | 09.25.2013
You may remember a short period in the 1990s when a broad consensus emerged among biologists about the ethics of...