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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 Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 07.28.2011

The federal government can continue to fund embryonic stem cell research, a U.S. district judge ruled Wednesday.

The decision from...
By Carl Elliott, New York Times | 07.28.2011

LAST month, the Archives of Internal Medicine published a scathing reassessment of a 12-year-old research study of Neurontin, a seizure...

By Mara Hvistendahl, Foreign Policy | 07.26.2011

For nearly two decades, anti-abortion activists have been at work in a disingenuous game, using the stark reduction of women...

By Ben Hirschler, Reuters | 07.21.2011
Scientific experiments that insert human genes or cells into animals need new rules to ensure they are ethically acceptable and...
By Susan Donaldson James, ABC News | 07.21.2011
Rebecca Blackwell and her 15-year-old son Tyler were curious about his sperm donor father, whose identity had been anonymous since...
By Ilana Yurkiewicz, Science Progress | 07.18.2011
In July 37 parents and supporters in New Zealand brought a complaint to the International Criminal Court accusing their state...
By Ilana Yurkiewicz, Science Progress | 07.18.2011
In July 37 parents and supporters in New Zealand brought a complaint to the International Criminal Court accusing their state...
By Martin Beckford, Telegraph [UK] | 07.18.2011
An academic journal article states that “IVF cannot compensate for delays in childbearing” because of the biological effects of ageing...