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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 CBS, CBS New York [Quotes CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 03.29.2013

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — New technology could bring babies into the world with three biological parents. The procedure is close...

By Lisa Krieger, Mercury News | 03.29.2013
A team of Stanford engineers has made a simple computer inside a living cell, where it could detect disease, warn...
By Mike Sacks, HuffPost Live | 03.29.2013
By John Farrell, Forbes | 03.28.2013

The conception of children who share the genes of three parents could be one step closer to reality.

Last week...

By Carl Gierstorfer, The Atlantic | 03.28.2013

Selvi holds her tiny baby girl somewhat clumsily in her arms. She carefully strokes the thin legs of the helpless...

By Daniela Hernandez, Wired | 03.28.2013
If you thought personalised advertising based on your Facebook status updates, Gmail content or online browsing behaviour was creepy, just...
By Caroline Wright and Anna Middleton, Genomes Unzipped | 03.28.2013
The American College of Medical Genetics (ACMG) has recently published recommendations for reporting incidental findings (IFs) in clinical exome and...
By Alison Motluk, National Post | 03.28.2013
A young Florida woman who suffered a stroke after donating her eggs to a Canadian couple is suing a Toronto...