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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 Leigh Dayton, Science | 04.19.2013
The U.S. Supreme Court isn't the only high court considering a precedent-setting case on patenting human genes. Australia's Full Federal...
By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 04.18.2013
Sequencing startup uBiome marked its next phase today with the launch of its new sales site where customers can order...
By Ruha Benjamin, Huffington Post | 04.17.2013
To Pay or Not to Pay

Imagine two women sitting in a waiting room -- one is a store clerk...
By Suzanne Rico, The Atlantic | 04.17.2013
I first met Dawn Bennett in 2007 at my fertility doctor's office. Her long black hair was pulled back from...
By Eliot Marshall, Science | 04.17.2013
The question has been debated for years but not addressed directly by the U.S. Supreme Court—until this week. It came...
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 04.16.2013
Australian scientists made headlines last month when they revealed that they were close to cloning a frog, Rheobatrachus silus...
By Press Release, SynBioWatch | 04.15.2013

SynBioWatch Press Release:

For Immediate Release

April 15, 2013

Contact: Lisa Archer, Gopal Dayaneni, or Tina Stevens, , (510) 982-1285...

By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times | 04.15.2013
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court justices said Monday they were highly skeptical of the idea that a company or a...