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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 Luige del Puerto, Arizona Capitol Times | 03.01.2010
The Arizona Senate passed a referendum that would ban human cloning in Arizona, despite opposition from lawmakers who said the...
By Michael Bobelian, Washington Monthly (March/April 2010) | 03.01.2010
Three days before Christmas 1972, a twenty-two-year-old nurse named Diana Sylvester wrapped up her night shift at the University of...
By Eloise Gibson, New Zealand Herald | 02.27.2010
A proposal to put human genes into goats, sheep and cows to try to get the animals to make human...
By RIA Novosti, RIA Novosti | 02.26.2010

Leader of the Russian Liberal Democrats Vladimir Zhirinovsky said on Friday cloning should be permitted in Russia and proposed cloning...

By Marcy Darnovsky and Jesse Reynolds, Biodiversity: The Newsletter of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity (Winter 2010) | 02.24.2010

Synthetic biology is the rapidly developing field devoted to engineering life from the ground up. It has recently generated headlines...

By Emily Ramshaw, Texas Tribune | 02.22.2010
When state health officials were sued last year for storing infant blood samples without parental consent, they said it was...
By Agence France-Presse, Agence France-Presse | 02.21.2010

Women will soon be able to tell how many eggs they have in their ovaries in a simple hormone test...

By Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press | 02.19.2010
Some of mankind's most devastating inherited diseases appear to be declining, and a few have nearly disappeared, because more people...