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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...

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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 Richard Alleyne, The Telegraph | 11.12.2009

Researchers used eggs from young donors to repair damaged eggs of older women in order to increase their chances of...

By Kate Kelland, Reuters | 11.09.2009
A mouse that can speak? A monkey with Down's Syndrome? Dogs with human hands or feet? British scientists want to...
By Kevin B. O'Reilly, American Medical News | 11.09.2009

After heated controversy last winter over the birth of octuplets conceived through in vitro fertilization, the American Society for Reproductive...

By Robert F. Service, ScienceNOW Daily News | 11.05.2009
The cost of sequencing an entire human genome continues to plummet. Complete Genomics, a Mountain View, California-based biotechnology company last...
By Press Trust of India, Press Trust of India | 11.02.2009

Two doctors were awarded three years imprisonment by a local court here for propagating sex determination tests, banned under Pre-conception...

By Edith Honan, Reuters | 11.02.2009
A lawsuit challenging patents on two human genes associated with hereditary breast and ovarian cancer can move forward, a U.S...
By Stuart Blackman, The Scientist | 11.01.2009

A South Korean postage stamp issued in 2005 depicts a scene that is reminiscent of the iconic human evolution cartoon...

By Katherine Harmon, Scientific American | 10.31.2009

Paying a woman for her eggs to use in stem cell research has been a bioethical no-no for years. But...