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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 Kim Tae-gyu, The Korea Times | 02.18.2010
Korean scientists are moving closer to cloning embryonic stem cells, the unprecedented breakthrough that their compatriot and disgraced scientist Hwang...
By Mary Carmichael, Newsweek | 02.12.2010
During the late 1990s, it was an article of faith that the decade ahead would be the Age of Biotech...
By Richa Sharma, Indo-Asian News Service | 02.11.2010
In a trend that seems to be catching on, many Delhi college girls and single-working women are coming forward to...
By Zach Zorich, Archaeology (March/April 2010) | 02.11.2010
If Neanderthals ever walk the earth again, the primordial ooze from which they will rise is an emulsion of oil...
By Fiona MacRae, The Daily Mail | 02.09.2010
Couples are to be offered a simple test to stop them passing on any of more than 100 genetic diseases...
By Lois Rogers, The Times | 02.07.2010
Doctors have uncovered the first evidence that fathers of test-tube babies may be passing on their infertility to their sons...
By Margaret Munro, Canwest News Service | 02.05.2010

As many of the fittest humans on Earth converge here for the Olympics, scientists are stepping up warnings about gene...

By Elizabeth Weise, USA Today | 02.03.2010
In a case that could have far-reaching implications for medical research and health care based on genetics, groups representing thousands...