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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.

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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By New Scientist, New Scientist | 10.20.2010

A novel treatment for depression may soon get the go ahead: injecting genes directly into the brain. It would be the...

By Dennis Hevesi, New York Times | 10.20.2010
Paul Miller, a lawyer who was born with achondroplasia — dwarfism — overcame discrimination because of his disability and became...
By Habiba Nosheen and Hilke Schellmann, Glamour | 10.20.2010

After tucking in her two children, Jack, six, and Andrea, four, Beth Goodman* settles in for another bedtime routine: saying...

By Polly Curtis, The Guardian | 10.20.2010

The government today delivered its promised "bonfire of the quangos", abolishing 192 government agencies, merging another 118 and substantially reforming...

By Charlie Dunmore, Reuters UK | 10.19.2010

The European Union announced plans on Tuesday to temporarily ban the use of animal cloning for food production, while allowing...

By Kevin B. O'Reilly, amednews.com | 10.18.2010
Four decades ago, a majority of Americans told pollsters that the idea of creating a baby in a test tube...
By Charles Ornstein, Tracy Weber, and Dan Nguyen, ProPublica | 10.18.2010

The Ohio medical board concluded that pain physician William D. Leak had performed “unnecessary” nerve tests on 20 patients and...

By Chris Merritt, The Australian | 10.15.2010

The federal government has endorsed plans for a major overhaul of the way law enforcement agencies and testing labs deal...