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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 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 Associated Press, Boston Globe | 11.28.2011
The Biotechnology Industry Organization spent almost $2 million in the third quarter as it lobbied Congress, the White House, and...
By Associated Press, Boston Globe | 11.28.2011
The Biotechnology Industry Organization spent almost $2 million in the third quarter as it lobbied Congress, the White House, and...
By Duff Wilson, New York Times | 11.23.2011


Merck has agreed to pay $950 million and has pleaded guilty to a criminal charge over the marketing and sales...
By Duff Wilson, New York Times | 11.23.2011


Merck has agreed to pay $950 million and has pleaded guilty to a criminal charge over the marketing and sales...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 11.22.2011
By transforming microbes into miniature chemical factories, synthetic biology could lead to cheaper medicines, greener fuels and, to the distress...
By The Editors, Scientific American | 11.22.2011
In 2009 the San Francisco police arrested Lily Haskell when she allegedly attempted to come to the aid of a...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 11.22.2011
By transforming microbes into miniature chemical factories, synthetic biology could lead to cheaper medicines, greener fuels and, to the distress...