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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 Stella Young, Ramp Up | 10.09.2012
As a disabled feminist, I'm often asked about my views on medical procedures like pre-natal screening and preimplantation genetic diagnosis...
By Matthew Miller, Lansing State Journal | 10.06.2012

Stephen Hsu was an unconventional choice to lead Michigan State University’s research enterprise.

A theoretical physicist by training, Hsu has...

By Harumi Ozawa, Jakarta Globe | 10.06.2012

Japanese stem cell scientists raised hopes of a cure for infertility in humans Friday when they announced they had created...

By Don Terry, Southern Poverty Law Center | 10.06.2012

Jean Philippe Rushton, a psychology professor and probably the most important race scientist in North America, died of cancer Tuesday...

By Pete Brook, Wired | 10.04.2012

Life after death, for most people, is a faithful belief in a spiritual hereafter, a transfer to a higher, non-bodily...

By Wesley Johnson, The Independent [UK] | 10.01.2012
A man wrongly accused and charged with raping a woman was the “innocent victim” of an avoidable mistake, the forensics...
By Jacob P. Koshy, Live Mint | 10.01.2012

New Delhi: A new version of a draft law that proposed to set up a national DNA fingerprint database of...

By Ruth Saunders, BioNews | 10.01.2012

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has asked the US Supreme Court to reconsider its decision to uphold the patent...