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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 David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.24.2013
A key panel of the California stem cell agency today balked at approving a plan to ease restrictions on using...
By Anne Schindler, First Coast News | 07.23.2013
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- In many ways, the US and Canada aren't that different. But there are important distinctions. And one...
By Alex Stern and Tony Platt, The Huffington Post | 07.23.2013
The recent revelation that 148 female prisoners in two California institutions were sterilized between 2006 and 2010 is another example...
By George Estreich, <i>Biopolitical Times</i> guest contributor | 07.23.2013
I’m just home from the annual National Down Syndrome Congress convention, and even given the fact that Down syndrome lands...
By Michael Biesecker, Associated Press | 07.22.2013
RALEIGH, N.C. - A proposed budget agreement sets aside $10 million for one-time payments to North Carolina's forced sterilization victims...
By BBC, BBC News | 07.21.2013

The prospect of reversing blindness has made a significant leap, according to scientists in the UK.

An animal study in...

By Shobita Dhar, The Times of India | 07.21.2013
Mayuri Singhal, 36, married into a fair-skinned family. She herself is what is often described in matrimonial columns as 'wheatish'...
By Ben Finley, Inquirer | 07.20.2013
Early on Nov. 30, 2011, someone threw a rock through a Bristol Township gas station window and hopped inside.

The...