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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 Shekhar Bhatia, The Telegraph (UK) | 05.26.2012
There are now up to 1,000 clinics, all entirely unregulated, in the country, many specialising in helping Britons become parents...
By Shekhar Bhatia, The Telegraph (UK) | 05.26.2012
There are now up to 1,000 clinics, all entirely unregulated, in the country, many specialising in helping Britons become parents...
By Art Caplan, MSNBC | 05.24.2012
The German Medical Association has issued a remarkably blunt and straightforward apology, more than six decades after the end of...
By Art Caplan, MSNBC | 05.24.2012
The German Medical Association has issued a remarkably blunt and straightforward apology, more than six decades after the end of...
By Travis Loller, Associated Press | 05.24.2012

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group...

By Travis Loller, Associated Press | 05.24.2012

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — For years, varied and sometimes wild claims have been made about the origins of a group...

By Gallup, Gallup | 05.22.2012

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 05.21.2012

Researchers have encoded a form of rewritable memory into DNA.

The arduous work involved in building the system is almost...