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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 Gallup, Gallup | 05.20.2013

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

By Gayle Sulik, Scientific American | 05.20.2013
After learning that she had inherited a mutation on one of the so-called breast cancer genes, actress Angelina Jolie decided...
By Emma Stoye, BioNews | 05.20.2013
A new technique for monitoring embryo health could increase the chance of IVF couples having a healthy baby, according to...
By Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera | 05.17.2013


In a major step forward in science, biologists have finally managed to create human stem cells through cloning. Some say...

By Judy Norsigian, Our Bodies Our Blog | 05.17.2013
Angelina Jolie certainly has good intentions in sharing her experience with breast cancer genetic testing and her decision to have...
By David King, CNN | 05.17.2013

(CNN) -- Today was a strange day. I'm used to handling the brief but overwhelming burst of media attention that...

By John Lauerman, Bloomberg | 05.16.2013

Should patients undergoing broad DNA testing for a specific ailment be told of unexpected findings that signal risk of cancer...

By MercoPress, MercoPress [Quotes CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.16.2013

The landmark discovery by an Oregon Health & Science University team involved taking a skin cell from an 8-month-old child...