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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 James Kanter, New York Times | 07.07.2010
The European Parliament appealed on Wednesday for a ban on the sale of foods from cloned animals and their offspring...
By Ferris Jabr, Scientific American | 07.06.2010
This week, the University of California, Berkeley will mail saliva sample kits to every incoming freshman and transfer student. Students...
By Robert A. Guth, Wall Street Journal | 07.01.2010
Bay Area universities and research groups are betting they can spawn a new generation of medical breakthroughs and the next...
By Peter Aldhous, New Scientist | 06.30.2010
TAKE frozen cells from a dead animal, reprogram them to become sperm and eggs, then use these to bring endangered...
By Emma Wilkinson, BBC News | 06.28.2010

A study of women at a Belgian clinic found half wanted to freeze their eggs to take the pressure off...

By Victoria Stagg Elliott, amednews.com | 06.28.2010
The American Medical Association opposes the patenting of human genes and related naturally occurring mutations, according to policy adopted June...
By Nancy Gibbs, TIME | 06.28.2010
Right about now, it would be great if we could release into the Gulf of Mexico a vat of bugs...
By Alok Jha, The Guardian (UK) | 06.24.2010
Human genetic information must be kept in the public domain to allow researchers to analyse it and to give members...