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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 Azeen Ghorayshi, Mother Jones | 12.15.2011
The human genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are pretty notorious. A woman carrying a harmful mutation in either of these two...
By Krystina Steffen, SEO Legal News | 12.15.2011
With advances in science and technology, having a healthy baby is more of a possibility. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis, also known...
By Azeen Ghorayshi, Mother Jones | 12.15.2011
The human genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 are pretty notorious. A woman carrying a harmful mutation in either of these two...
By New Scientist, New Scientist | 12.13.2011

Police with no leads can now predict the eye colour of their suspect from DNA recovered at the crime scene...

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 12.10.2011
Medical researchers in Britain have successfully treated six patients suffering from the blood-clotting disease known as hemophilia B by injecting...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 12.10.2011
Medical researchers in Britain have successfully treated six patients suffering from the blood-clotting disease known as hemophilia B by injecting...
By Kim Severson, New York Times | 12.09.2011
LINWOOD, N.C. — Charles Holt, 62, spreads a cache of vintage government records across his trailer floor. They are the...
By Kim Severson, New York Times | 12.09.2011
LINWOOD, N.C. — Charles Holt, 62, spreads a cache of vintage government records across his trailer floor. They are the...