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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 Dina Kraft, New York Times | 07.17.2011

Jewish and Arab, straight and gay, secular and religious, the patients who come to Assuta Hospital in Tel Aviv every...

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 07.14.2011

Synthetic biology, the quest to hijack living systems and convert them to human-directed goals, is on the march. Last year...

By Michelle Chen, Asia Pacific Forum, WBAI | 07.11.2011

We often hear about sex selective abortion as an issue that is confined to India and China. New research suggests...

By Cynthia Dill, Huffington Post | 07.10.2011

Sitting in his ivory tower reserved for men only in Portland, Maine, M.D. Harmon lectures readers about the myriad uses...

By Elizabeth Landau, CNN | 07.08.2011

No matter what race you consider yourself to be, you have a unique genetic makeup.

That's why, as technology improves...

By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 07.07.2011
When Juliet Jacobs found out she had lung cancer, she was terrified, but realized that her hope lay in getting...
By Lynn La, Sacramento Bee | 07.06.2011

By itself, a glob of spit at the bottom of a cup doesn't sound remarkable.

But when you have globs...

By Shirley S. Wang, Wall Street Journal | 07.05.2011

Early intervention is among the most effective ways to reduce the risk of chronic diseases like obesity and diabetes, scientists...