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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 Jenna Marotta, Jezebel | 12.01.2011
On a recent Tuesday evening, I applied to be an egg donor. "Help create a family," read the two-inch-square ad...
By Jenna Marotta, Jezebel | 12.01.2011
On a recent Tuesday evening, I applied to be an egg donor. "Help create a family," read the two-inch-square ad...
By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 12.01.2011

An appeals court says a law prohibiting payment for donated organs did not apply to stem cells extracted from circulating...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 12.01.2011

An appeals court says a law prohibiting payment for donated organs did not apply to stem cells extracted from circulating...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Susan Berke Fogel, Judy Norsigian, Nature | 12.01.2011

The demand for women’s eggs for research could soar alarmingly following news of a cloning technique that uses human oocytes...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 11.30.2011
BGI, based in China, is the world’s largest genomics research institute, with 167 DNA sequencers producing the equivalent of 2,000...
By Lauren Gravitz, Nature News | 11.30.2011

Gene therapy, an approach most commonly explored for curing chronic genetic diseases such as cystic fibrosis, may also prove practical...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 11.30.2011
BGI, based in China, is the world’s largest genomics research institute, with 167 DNA sequencers producing the equivalent of 2,000...