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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 Amana Fontanella-Khan, Slate | 08.23.2010

You can outsource just about any work to India these days, including making babies. Reproductive tourism in India is now...

By Alan Miller, The Marin Independent Journal | 08.23.2010

FACULTY MEMBERS at major universities such as the University of California at Berkeley learn early on to be very cautious...

By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 08.22.2010

Two California newspapers today offered quite different views of the world - one bleak and the other filled with hope...

By Denis Campbell, The Guardian (UK) | 08.22.2010

Nicola and Nigel Dawson have experienced the frustration and heartbreak of infertility. The couple tried for several years to conceive...

By Roger Highfield, watoday.com | 08.21.2010

The cloned food furore has been a timely reminder of how, even when we recognise a big idea, no one...

By Josh Keller, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 08.19.2010

After months of debate, a ruling by the California Department of Public Health last week put an end to the...

By Gina Kolata, New York Times | 08.19.2010

The human genome is riddled with dead genes, fossils of a sort, dating back hundreds of thousands of years -...

By Linda Geddes, The New Scientist | 08.18.2010

CHARLES RICHARD SMITH has learned the hard way that you can prove almost anything with statistics. In 2009 a disputed...