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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 Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News | 12.08.2011
Touted seven years ago as a way to develop "breakthrough cures" for an array of life-threatening ailments, California's $3 billion...
By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News | 12.08.2011
Touted seven years ago as a way to develop "breakthrough cures" for an array of life-threatening ailments, California's $3 billion...
By Karen Barlow, ABC News [Australia] | 12.08.2011

The fight over human genes and whether they can be patented for medical research has gone to the US Supreme...

By Karen Barlow, ABC News [Australia] | 12.08.2011

The fight over human genes and whether they can be patented for medical research has gone to the US Supreme...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 12.07.2011

For years, Geron Corp. had claimed to be in the vanguard among California companies engaged in stem cell research. So...
By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 12.07.2011

For years, Geron Corp. had claimed to be in the vanguard among California companies engaged in stem cell research. So...
By David Crary, Associated Press National Writer, ABC News | 12.06.2011

The practice of sex-selection abortion, usually targeting a female fetus due to parental preference for a son, has few defenders...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 12.06.2011
A new test might allow some women with the earliest phase of breast cancer to forgo the most aggressive treatment...