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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 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...

By David Jensen, The Sacramento Bee | 05.20.2012

They're talking about pain at the $3 billion California stem cell agency. And mortality. But not the end of life...
By David Jensen, The Sacramento Bee | 05.20.2012

They're talking about pain at the $3 billion California stem cell agency. And mortality. But not the end of life...
By Helen Shen, Nature | 05.18.2012

California lawmakers are weighing a bill aimed at protecting their state's citizens from surreptitious genetic testing but scientists are voicing...

By Helen Shen, Nature | 05.18.2012

California lawmakers are weighing a bill aimed at protecting their state's citizens from surreptitious genetic testing but scientists are voicing...

By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 05.17.2012
The task of finding the genetic roots of common disease seems much harder, dimming the promise of personal genomics and...
By Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 05.17.2012
The task of finding the genetic roots of common disease seems much harder, dimming the promise of personal genomics and...
By Times of India, Times of India | 05.17.2012

AHMEDABAD: Premila Vaghela, 30, had opted to become a surrogate mother and deliver child of a US-based couple to supplement...