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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 NPR, National Public Radio | 10.29.2010

JOE PALCA, host:

From NPR, this is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Joe Palca. It cost a lot of money to sequence...

By Jurgen Habermas, New York Times | 10.28.2010

Since the end of August Germany has been roiled by waves of political turmoil over integration, multiculturalism and the role...

By Ginny Graves, MSNBC | 10.25.2010

In November 2005, Runi Limary, a sixth-grade teacher in Austin, Texas, was diagnosed with invasive cancer in her right breast...

By Andrea Sands, EdmontonJournal.com | 10.24.2010

Alberta stopped its eugenics sterilization program three decades ago, but the practice of "newgenics" is still rampant, a conference heard...

By Laurie Udesky, The Lancet | 10.23.2010

A report into a 1-year investigation of genetic testing firms selling directly to consumers by the US General Accounting Office...

By Jenny Johnston, The Daily Mail | 10.23.2010

A few days after his vasectomy, Alan Mitchell's GP phoned him to check on his progress. He warned Alan that...

By Olga Gumanova, Pravda.Ru | 10.22.2010

According to leading Russian geneticists, at the present level of development of biomedical technologies, we can produce a human from...

By Alice Dreger, Bioethics Forum | 10.22.2010

I know that when my medical school sends us all an announcement that we’ve broken a record for funded research...