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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 Kai Kupferschmidt, Science Insider | 11.13.2012
Animal rights activists in Germany are contesting three patents on genetically engineered chimpanzees granted this year by the European Patent...
By Nathaniel Comfort, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 11.12.2012
"The ultimate ideal sought," wrote Harvey Ernest Jordan in 1912, "is a perfect society constituted of perfect individuals." Jordan, who...
By Monya Baker, Nature | 11.10.2012
If parents have a son’s genes sequenced in hopes of explaining extreme muscle weakness, should they also be told whether...
By Tia Ghose, LiveScience | 11.09.2012
SAN FRANCISCO – Identical twins may not be so identical after all. Even though identical twins supposedly share all of...
By Daniela Hernandez, Wired | 11.09.2012
Genes are going mobile. In September, consumer genomics company 23andMe announced it was opening its API, the program that allows...
By David Wainer, Business Week | 11.09.2012

Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. (PSTI) said a second of the three patients given the company’s experimental stem cells has...

By Daniela Hernandez, Wired | 11.09.2012
Genes are going mobile. In September, consumer genomics company 23andMe announced it was opening its API, the program that allows...
By Malorye Allison, Nature | 11.08.2012

By putting its foot in the door at the FDA, can 23andMe reinvigorate direct-to-consumer genomics? Malorye Allison investigates.

In July...