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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 Patricia Williams, LOG: Journal of Architecture and Urbanism | 12.17.2012
Sometimes it’s hard to count on the sustained attention of university students, distracted as they are by an excessively twittering...
By Julian Hitchcock, BioNews | 12.17.2012

Untitled Document On 27 November the case of Brüstle v Greenpeace was remitted to the German Federal High Court. Its...

By John Pavlus, MIT Technology Review | 12.17.2012
Late last Friday, Google announced a jaw-dropping hire: Ray Kurzweil will join the company as a Director of Engineering...
By Carolyn Abraham and Carolynne Wheeler, The Globe and Mail | 12.15.2012

In the South China city of Shenzhen, a thriving manufacturing hub known for cheap goods and high-tech electronics, the genetic...

By Melody Petersen, The Orange County Register | 12.14.2012
The panel of scientists reviewing grant requests at California's stem cell funding agency didn't like the proposal submitted by UC...
By Osagie K. Obasogie, New Scientist | 12.14.2012

Have we gone beyond race? Many argue society has now overcome centuries of strife to become "post-racial" - a moment...

By Lee Howard, The Day | 12.14.2012
Pfizer Inc. whistleblower Becky McClain’s legal battle to draw public attention to worker-safety issues came to an end Friday as...
By Judy Norsigian, Our Bodies Ourselves | 12.13.2012
In early October, I had the honor of co-leading a workshop in Kathmandu on the growing popularity of cross-border surrogacy...