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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 Cyranoski, Nature | 06.14.2013
He’s back.

Last autumn, Hisashi Moriguchi stunned the world of stem-cell science by claiming he had become the first person...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 06.13.2013
Almost immediately after the Supreme Court ruled that human genes could not be patented, several laboratories announced they, too, would...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 06.13.2013
Legislation that would permit women in California to be paid for their eggs for scientific research yesterday cleared a key...
By Rachel Walden, Our Bodies Our Blog | 06.13.2013
The process of in vitro fertilization – in which embryos are created outside a woman’s body and then implanted in...
By Adam Liptak, The New York Times | 06.13.2013
WASHINGTON — Isolated human genes may not be patented, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Thursday. The case concerned patents...
By Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times | 06.12.2013
Slowly, and largely under the radar, a growing number of local law enforcement agencies across the country have moved into...
By Steven E. Brenner, Nature | 06.12.2013
Most people in the United States could soon know someone whose genome is held in a research database. Concerns are...
By Marcy Darnovsky and Alexandra Minna Stern, The Wall Street Journal | 06.12.2013

Four million American women are expecting a child this year, and many of them will encounter something entirely new in...