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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 Mark Henderson, The Times | 01.07.2010

Spitting is not an activity that has traditionally carried much social cachet. Yet at New York Fashion Week and the...

By Mark Henderson, The Times | 01.05.2010
Only five years ago scientists knew almost nothing about the genetic factors that influence common diseases.

Although major mutations that...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 12.28.2009
Only one man seems to have ever been cured of AIDS, a patient who also had leukemia. To treat the...
By James Romoser, Winston-Salem Journal | 12.26.2009

State money that was allocated during the summer for the benefit of sterilization victims still has not been spent, and...

By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.24.2009
A federal judge refused Wednesday to block a voter-approved California law requiring anyone arrested on a felony charge to provide...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 12.19.2009
Icelandic biologists have discovered that the genetic risk of several common diseases, like Type 2 diabetes and cancer, can depend...
By Arielle Levin Baker, Hartford Courant | 12.14.2009
State money has helped Connecticut carve a niche in stem cell research, luring top scientists to the state and funding...
By Marcy Darnovsky, 2020 Science | 12.14.2009

Much appreciation is due to Andrew for his courage in soliciting "alternative perspectives" on technology innovation and life in the...