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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 John Lauerman, Bloomberg | 02.24.2013
The Faroe Islands, a tiny, windswept land halfway between Scotland and Iceland, is so barren its 50,000 inhabitants import almost...
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Insider | 02.22.2013
In a victory for open access advocates, the White House science office today released a long-awaited policy aimed at sharing...
By Luke Dittrich, Esquire | 02.21.2013
In 1973, during a panel discussion on the ethics of brain surgery, a Yale neurophysiologist named Jose Delgado argued that...
By Bonnie Rochman, Time | 02.21.2013
Should worried parents be able to test their babies for diseases they may develop down the road, just because they’re...
By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 02.20.2013
Hey Nobel Prize in Medicine! You’ve got competition. This morning, a bevy of techoscenti billionaires including Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey...
By George Kimbrell and Debbie Barker, Los Angeles Times | 02.19.2013
On Tuesday, attorneys for the largest agrochemical corporation in the world, Monsanto, will present arguments before the Supreme Court asserting...
By Central Valley Business Times, Central Valley Business Times | 02.19.2013

Tonya Ann Collins, 37, formerly of Modesto, has pleaded guilty Tuesday to four counts of wire fraud in connection with...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 02.18.2013
Miguel Nicolelis, a top neuroscientist at Duke University, says computers will never replicate the human brain and that the...