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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 Suzanne Bohan, Contra Costa Times | 11.21.2010

Stanford University researcher Thomas Jaramillo is overseeing a million-dollar research project that explores ways to create liquid fuel from sunlight...

By CBS News, CBS News | 11.21.2010

For generations, scientists have wrestled with the idea of creating new forms of life in the laboratory. Now that age...

By Jerry Markon, Washington Post | 11.18.2010

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is reversing a controversial Bush administration policy under which numerous defendants have waived their...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Insider | 11.17.2010

A presidential bioethics commission concluded this week that the U.S. government should not clamp down too hard on research on...

By Nanowerk News, Nanowerk News | 11.15.2010

The European Commission has released their new report "Europeans and biotechnology in 2010 – Winds of change?" (pdf). This latest...

By Judy Norsigian, The Boston Globe | 11.14.2010

Not all stem cell research is in women's best interest.

The issue of embryonic stem cell research has long been...

By Howie Severino, GMANews.TV | 11.09.2010

Like dozens of other men in the dusty copra town of Lopez, Quezon, Rommel, 30, has a long scar that...

By Benedict Carey, The New York Times | 11.08.2010

For decades, researchers have ransacked the genetic pedigrees of people with mental illness, looking for common variations that combine to...