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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 Allison Frost, Oregon Public Radio | 10.29.2012

Oregon Health and Science University scientist Shoukhrat Mitalipov and his team have created a viable embryo with the genetic material...

By Ben Rooney, The Wall Street Journal (blog) | 10.29.2012
TEL AVIV—Technology is a democratizing force, but a digital start-up here in Israel is taking democracy to a new limit...
By Bonnie Rochman, Time | 10.26.2012
Dana Nieder was at a loss. Doctors had been trying to figure out what was wrong with her daughter Maya...
By Tom Ashbrook, NPR On Point | 10.26.2012

Women freezing their eggs against future infertility – or, as a lifestyle choice.  We’ll look at the science and its...

By Nick Budnick, The Oregonian | 10.24.2012

Future generations could be stripped of mutations like hereditary blindness or maternal diabetes, after a breakthrough study at Oregon Health...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 10.24.2012
Geneticists reported Wednesday that they had crossed a threshold long considered off-limits: They have made changes in human DNA that...
By Damien Carrick, ABC (Australia) RadioNational | 10.23.2012
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Damien Carrick: Recently, the Family Court handed down its determination in the Ellison case. It’s the first time the...
By HealthCanal, HealthCanal.com | 10.23.2012

By some accounts, the Indian ART industry is worth $500 million to $2.3 billion.

In their upcoming paper, “Ethical...