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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 Judy Siegel-Itzkovich, The Jerusalem Post | 10.13.2009
A bill to extend until May 2016 the 1999 law that prohibits human cloning for reproductive purposes was passed by...
By Edith M. Lederer, Associated Press | 10.13.2009
A new international convention is needed to prevent trafficking in kidneys and other organs and potentially life-saving tissues and cells...
By Stephanie Saul, New York Times | 10.10.2009
Scary. Like aliens. That is how Kerry Mastera remembers her twins, Max and Wes, in the traumatic days after they...
By Margot Cohen, Wall Street Journal | 10.09.2009

On their third trip to India, Rhonda and Gerry Wile finally heard a sound they thought they might never hear...

By Donna Dickenson, Nature Reviews Genetics | 10.07.2009
By Steve Connor, The Independent | 10.05.2009
All research involving the controversial creation of animal-human "hybrid" embryos has been refused funding in Britain and one of the...
By RIA Novosti, RIA Novosti | 10.02.2009

Russia has decided to extend a moratorium on human cloning that expired two years ago by five years, the health...

By BBC, BBC News | 09.30.2009

The UK Border Agency "human provenance pilot project" is aimed at stopping people "swapping" nationality in the hope of remaining...