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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 Stefan Timmermans, Los Angeles Times | 07.19.2013
This year marks the 50th anniversary of routine newborn screening in the United States. Since 1963, tens of millions of...
By Ida Torres, Japan Daily Press | 07.19.2013
The Japanese government finally gave its approval for the world’s first clinical trials using stem cells that will be harvested...
By Teresa Chin, Hyphen Magazine | 07.19.2013
The ad wasn’t exactly subtle: “Genius Asian Egg Donor Needed — Above Average Compensation.” The author of the ad, which...
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.18.2013
Scientists have demonstrated a new way to reprogram adult tissue to become cells as versatile as embryonic stem cells —...
By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Washington Bureau | 07.18.2013
WASHINGTON — The FBI will review thousands of old cases, including some involving the death penalty, in which hair samples...
By Sergio Bonin, UN Chronicle | 07.18.2013

“Ring farewell to the century of physics, the one in which we split the atom and turned silicon into computing...

By Daniel Cressey, Nature News Blog | 07.18.2013
The future of the UK regulating bodies for human-embryo and human-tissue research has been safeguarded, as the government’s announcement yesterday...
By Kent Sepkowitz, The Daily Beast | 07.18.2013
Las Vegas has long been the philosophic capital of U.S. commerce, a physical (if hallucinator) reminder that luck does indeed...