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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 Carolyn Abraham, The Globe and Mail | 01.07.2012
Humanity has long dreamed of perfection, striving to be faster, stronger and brighter, pushing nature to the limit. Four centuries...
By Dan Vergano, USA Today | 01.05.2012
Biologists report the first monkey "chimeras", born with a mix of genes in their cells.

The monkeys were born...
By Dan Vergano, USA Today | 01.05.2012
Biologists report the first monkey "chimeras", born with a mix of genes in their cells.

The monkeys were born...
By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press / The Washington Post | 01.04.2012

ATLANTA — The number of twins born in the U.S. soared over the last three decades, mostly the result of...

By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press / The Washington Post | 01.04.2012

ATLANTA — The number of twins born in the U.S. soared over the last three decades, mostly the result of...

By Rachel Folz, 14 News | 01.04.2012
PHILIDELPHIA (NBC) - A Philadelphia company's appeal for egg donors and surrogate mothers is raising eyebrows.

An e-mail from Surrogate...
By Rachel Folz, 14 News | 01.04.2012
PHILIDELPHIA (NBC) - A Philadelphia company's appeal for egg donors and surrogate mothers is raising eyebrows.

An e-mail from Surrogate...
By Frederik Joelving, Reuters Health | 01.03.2012

(Reuters Health) - Many U.S. fertility clinics don't tell egg donors that embryos made from their eggs may end up...