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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 CalTV, CalTV [Interviews CGS's Marcy Darnovsky] | 09.24.2010

CalTV's Reena Flores explores the controversy behind this year's On the Same Page Program, hosted by UC Berkeley's College of...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, The Huffington Post | 09.24.2010

The Democratic Party has long gained political capital and much of its identity by holding itself out as a champion...

By Josephine Marcotty, Star Tribune | 09.22.2010

Ten years ago a little girl from Colorado made medical history when her parents and her doctor at the University...

By Saritha Rai, Global Post | 09.21.2010

BANGALORE, India — The couple was particular: the egg donor had to be under 25, fair, beautiful and educated. But...

By Merrill Goozner, Fiscal Times | 09.21.2010

When you fill a prescription or buy medicine over the counter, you have assurance from a power federal agency that...

By Sharon Schmickle, MinnPost.com | 09.21.2010

As a bid to connect science to the heartbeat of Minnesota's popular culture, the collection of DNA from hundreds of...

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 09.20.2010

A new exploration of how evolution works at the genomic level may have a significant impact on drug development and...

By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 09.20.2010

U.S. colleges and universities for the first time are requiring top student athletes to submit to testing for the gene...