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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 Kevin Bullis, Technology Review | 05.09.2012

Amyris, a company that uses synthetic biology to make alternatives to conventional petroleum products, recently decided to wind down...

By Kevin Bullis, Technology Review | 05.09.2012

Amyris, a company that uses synthetic biology to make alternatives to conventional petroleum products, recently decided to wind down...

By Sindyan N. Bhanoo, New York Times | 05.03.2012

In the Solomon Islands, about 10 percent of the dark-skinned indigenous people have strikingly blond hair. Some islanders theorize that...

By Sindyan N. Bhanoo, New York Times | 05.03.2012

In the Solomon Islands, about 10 percent of the dark-skinned indigenous people have strikingly blond hair. Some islanders theorize that...

By Harriet A. Washington, CNN | 05.03.2012

Editor's note: Harriet A. Washington is a medical ethicist, a former research fellow at Harvard Medical School and the...

By Shan Li, Los Angeles Times | 05.03.2012

It's technically called an egg "donation." But if you're a young Asian woman, donating your eggs to an infertile couple...

By Harriet A. Washington, CNN | 05.03.2012

Editor's note: Harriet A. Washington is a medical ethicist, a former research fellow at Harvard Medical School and the...

By Shan Li, Los Angeles Times | 05.03.2012

It's technically called an egg "donation." But if you're a young Asian woman, donating your eggs to an infertile couple...