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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 Ben Hirschler, Reuters | 01.03.2013
The Western world's first drug to fix faulty genes promises to transform the lives of patients with an ultra-rare disease...
By Yun Suh-young, The Korea Times | 01.03.2013
Stem cell research company RNL Bio faced allegations Thursday that it “smuggled” stem cells and related equipment overseas.

According to...
By Susan Berfield, Bloomberg Businessweek | 01.03.2013
Cecelia Johnson was an artist, cellist, tap dancer, and 22-year-old college student when she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in...
By Kyoko Hasegawa, inSing | 01.03.2013
(TOKYO) Hideaki Kato discovered his true identity by accident.

During his medical training a decade ago, the now 39-year-old Japanese...
By Marcia Heroux Pounds, Sun Sentinel | 01.03.2013
Boca Raton parents Gary and Judy Susser say the know the hope and promise of stem-cell therapy. Nine years ago...
By Andrew Hough, The Telegraph | 12.31.2012
Official statistics show that almost half of embryos used to help a women conceive through in vitro fertilisation were thrown...
By GMWatch, GMWatch | 12.31.2012

The 10 biggest GMO PR disasters of 2012

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2012 was...

By Donna Dickenson, Project Syndicate | 12.29.2012
LONDON – The United Kingdom’s Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has launched a public consultation to gauge attitudes toward...