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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 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 Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 11.21.2011
For patients paralyzed by spinal cord injuries, Geron Corp.'s stem cell research was the shining hope.

The biotech firm showered...
By Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News, Vancouver Sun | 11.21.2011
Women in Canada undergoing fertility treatments should be aware of a rare but potentially life-threatening complication, according to new guidelines...
By Tatia Megeneishvili, The Financial | 11.21.2011
For 26 year old Anna being a surrogate mother is her main source of income.

She is now pregnant with...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 11.21.2011
For patients paralyzed by spinal cord injuries, Geron Corp.'s stem cell research was the shining hope.

The biotech firm showered...
By Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News, Vancouver Sun | 11.21.2011
Women in Canada undergoing fertility treatments should be aware of a rare but potentially life-threatening complication, according to new guidelines...
By Tatia Megeneishvili, The Financial | 11.21.2011
For 26 year old Anna being a surrogate mother is her main source of income.

She is now pregnant with...
By Carl O'Brien, Irish Times | 11.19.2011
AT LEAST 15 children born through surrogacy to Irish couples abroad are caught in a legal limbo which has left...