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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 Jeremy Laurance, The Independent | 10.20.2011

Making babies by artificial means is not without risk. Nina Thanki, 37, from Leicester, died in 2006 from a pulmonary...

By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times | 10.19.2011
A prenatal blood test that can detect Down syndrome in a fetus in early pregnancy is now available to doctors...
By Hasan Dudar, Richmond Confidential | 10.18.2011
The cure for HIV could be as simple – well, almost — as a shot in the arm.

The full...
By Hasan Dudar, Richmond Confidential | 10.18.2011
The cure for HIV could be as simple – well, almost — as a shot in the arm.

The full...
By Meir Brezis, Haaretz [Israel] | 10.18.2011
The ultra-sound test showed a cyst on the embryo's brain. My daughter-in-law pondered whether to terminate the pregnancy. According to...
By Meir Brezis, Haaretz [Israel] | 10.18.2011
The ultra-sound test showed a cyst on the embryo's brain. My daughter-in-law pondered whether to terminate the pregnancy. According to...
By Maria Cheng, Bloomberg Businessweek | 10.18.2011

The European Union's top court ruled Tuesday that scientists cannot patent stem cell techniques that use human embryos for research...

By BBC, BBC News | 10.17.2011

He handed over eight muzzled coyotes to an animal shelter, in a scene reminiscent of his glory days as South...