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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 Ewen Callaway, Nature News | 09.01.2010

If attendees at the Minnesota State Fair aren't too busy revelling in the performances of Kiss or "Weird Al" Yankovic...

By Scott Carney, Fast Company | 09.01.2010

Krinos Trokoudes knows this much about women: "If you pay something," he says with a smile, "you get lots of...

By Akiva Eldar, Haaretz | 08.31.2010

Yesterday's Hebrew edition of Haaretz reported a remark by a German politician that sparked a political and public furor. The...

By Viji Sundaram, New America Media | 08.31.2010

ENCINO, Calif-On a recent day in this Los Angeles suburb, Maya Jagdeesh, 35, was being wheeled out of a room...

By Katherine Hobson, Wall Street Journal Health Blog | 08.30.2010

At the Minnesota State Fair, which runs through Labor Day, you can watch a butter sculptor carve the busts of...

By Donna Dickenson, The Globe and Mail | 08.28.2010

We are on the leading edge of a true revolution in medicine," Francis Collins, director of the U.S. National Institutes...

By Victoria Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle | 08.28.2010

When UC Berkeley changed its controversial DNA-testing program under pressure earlier this month so that incoming students would no longer...

By Jeremy Olson, The Star Tribune | 08.27.2010

The Poikonen family's first stop at the State Fair Thursday morning was for nine pronto pups.

Their second? The University...