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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 Kerry Grens, Reuters | 09.28.2012

Though assisted-reproduction techniques (ART) are known to come with a higher risk for birth defects, a new review of defect...

By Maureen Salamon, US News | 09.28.2012

FRIDAY, Sept. 28 (HealthDay News) -- A sophisticated genetic test sometimes used during pregnancy can't always predict if chromosomal abnormalities...

By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times | 09.27.2012

By more than a 2-to-1 margin, California voters favor an initiative to require food manufacturers and retailers to label fresh...

By HuffPost Live, HuffPost Live [With CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.27.2012

A new IVF technique being debated in England uses three genetic parents to create an embryo. This procedure helps avoid...

By Sandra Laville, The Guardian | 09.27.2012
Thousands of ex-offenders are to be targeted in a national drive to add their profiles to the police DNA database...
By Viji Sundaram, New America Media | 09.24.2012
Editor's Note: The practice of gender selection, grinding poverty among the people and the stifling caste system have contributed to...
By Sue MacGregor, BBC | 09.24.2012
In this week's Reunion, Sue MacGregor gathers together creators of Dolly the cloned sheep - a revolutionary but divisive scientific...
By The Korea Times, The Korea Times | 09.24.2012

A Korean private bioengineering laboratory led by disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk said Monday it is stepping up efforts...