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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 Patricia Williams, The Nation | 09.09.2010
The school year at the University of California, Berkeley, began with a swab. In a program called Bring Your Genes...
By Gardiner Harris, New York Times | 09.09.2010
WASHINGTON - A federal appeals court here ruled Thursday that federal financing of embryonic stem cell research could continue while...
By Hamish McNeilly, The Otago Daily Times | 09.07.2010

Police are welcoming enhancements to crime-fighting technology which will allow them to take more DNA samples from suspected criminals -...

By Peter J. Boyer, The New Yorker | 09.06.2010

When the geneticist Francis Collins was named director of the National Institutes of Health, last summer, he became the public...

By Peter J. Boyer, The New Yorker | 09.06.2010
When the geneticist Francis Collins was named director of the National Institutes of Health, last summer, he became the public...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 09.04.2010

THE scientific rebel J. Craig Venter created headlines — and drew comparisons to Dr. Frankenstein — when he announced in...

By Peter Vinthagen Simpson, The Local | 09.03.2010

Wahlberg occupies 26th place on the Sweden Democrats list for municipal elections in Landskrona in southern Sweden and he currently...

By Helen W. Brown, PhD, AARP.org | 09.01.2010

A large majority of Americans have never been tested for their genetic makeup, according to a recent AARP Bulletin survey. ...