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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 Bae Ji-sook, The Korea Times | 11.07.2010

Scores of lawmakers, high-ranking officials and entertainers, among others, are suspected of having received illegal stem cell injection treatments here...

By Keith O'Brien, The Boston Globe | 11.07.2010

At criminal trials, there is always talk about doubt, reasonable doubt. But in recent years, with the rise of DNA...

By Sarah Boseley, The Guardian (UK) | 11.06.2010


Nicosia looks nice. The clinic website shows pictures of boats bobbing on blue-green Cypriot waters. Spain feels more familiar, but...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 11.01.2010

When the Justice Department declared in a court filing late Friday that genes should not be eligible for patents because...

By Matthew Kalman and Sophie Borland, The Daily Mail | 11.01.2010

Doctors have developed a blood test that enables mothers-to-be to learn the sex of their babies just seven weeks after...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 10.29.2010

Reversing a longstanding policy, the federal government said on Friday that human and other genes should not be eligible for...

By Jessica Cerretani, Boston Globe | 10.29.2010

In the end, it was a slice of pizza that sealed his fate: In a scene straight from CSI, a...

By Rebecca Morelle, BBC News | 10.29.2010

It is like a military operation.

There are team briefings, kit is checked and then checked again.

But dealing with...