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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 Mico Tatalovic, SciDev Net | 01.17.2011
Environmental campaigners are urging developing countries to include the rapidly advancing science of synthetic biology — the building of new...
By James Gallagher, BBC News | 01.17.2011
Demand for donor treatment is far greater than supply and the body which regulates treatment is concerned about couples looking...
By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle | 01.12.2011
Doctors who recommend genetic testing for healthy relatives of cancer patients overwhelmingly favor unnecessary, costly tests in a survey done...
By Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian (UK) | 01.10.2011
What is it like to work for a quango that has been given a death sentence? For staff at the...
By Michael Burnam-Fink, Science Progress | 01.07.2011
In the past decade, the U.S. military’s interest in human enhancement technologies has waxed and waned. An initial surge of...
By Kim Tae-Jong, The Korea Times | 01.06.2011
The prosecution said Thursday it had launched an investigation into allegations that RNL Bio, a biotechnology firm, and five of...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 01.04.2011
Jonathan M. Rothberg fancies himself the Steve Jobs of biotechnology. While much less known than the Apple leader, Dr. Rothberg...
By Belinda Luscombe, Time | 01.04.2011
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a money-, time-, and dignity- gobbling exercise with lower than a third chance of success...