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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 Eliza Barclay, NPR Blog | 05.09.2011
For all the fanfare around personalized medicine, the idea has been fairly slow to take off.

Boosters have said if...
By Maura Dolan, The Los Angeles Times | 05.09.2011
A young man followed a woman into a coffee shop as she prepared to open for business at 6 a.m...
By Gallup, Gallup | 05.08.2011

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

By Ben Hirschler, Reuters | 05.06.2011
The Polish port city of Gdansk is famous for its shipyards. Hungary's fifth largest city, Pecs, is known for its...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 05.04.2011
On Wednesday morning the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine announced a $25-million award to support a spinal cord injury trial. ...
By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 05.03.2011

In 2009, a Buenos Aires civic association awarded a prize named after American civil rights activist Rosa Parks to Argentinian...

By Donald G. McNeil Jr. and Pam Belluck, The New York Times | 05.02.2011
While federal officials said that analysis of DNA from several relatives helped confirm that it was Osama bin Laden who...
By Gardiner Harris, The New York Times | 04.29.2011
Government financing of human embryonic stem cell research can continue, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. The decision was an...