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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 Michelle Roberts, BBC News | 11.08.2012

A race of humans who can work without tiring and recall every conversation they've ever had may sound like science...

By Jenna Brogan, Good Times | 11.07.2012
Standing 5-foot-8-inches, and weighing in at 130 pounds, Santa Cruz resident Raquel Cool hardly stands out in a crowd—but she’s...
By Raphael Satter, Washington Post | 11.07.2012

LONDON — Performance-boosting drugs, powered prostheses and wearable computers are coming to an office near you — but experts warned...

By Charles T. Rubin, The New Atlantis | 11.07.2012
America’s Grey Lady, the New York Times, has long been willing to take transhumanist topics seriously, perhaps in some...
By James Tabery, The Scientist | 11.06.2012
Scientific evidence concerning the biological causes of bad behavior is becoming increasingly common in the courtroom. Forensic psychiatrists at Vanderbilt...
By Stephen Dinan, The Washington Times | 11.05.2012
That vote you’re about to cast may have been set in motion long ago — going all the way back...
By Donna Dickenson, BioNews | 11.05.2012
'We are in a new era of the life sciences, but in no area of research is the promise greater...
By Evan Charney and William English, Scientific American | 11.05.2012
Dozens of studies in the past few years have linked single genes to whether a person is liberal or conservative...