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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 Kimi Yoshino, Los Angeles Times | 09.11.2009
The UC Board of Regents has quietly settled a dozen lawsuits stemming from fertility fraud uncovered nearly 15 years ago...
By Ben Padley and Ellen Branagh, Press Association | 09.10.2009
The man who discovered DNA fingerprinting demanded a change in the law today to remove the profiles of innocent people...
By Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati Enquirer | 09.05.2009
A justice reform bill endorsed by Gov. Ted Strickland and passed by the Senate designed to prevent wrongful convictions also...
By The Economist, The Economist | 09.03.2009

MANY of the world’s great innovators started out as hackers—people who like to tinker with technology—and some of the largest...

By Jill Neimark, Discover | 09.02.2009

"For the first two years of her life, my daughter, Katlyn, was knocking on heaven's door every day," says Daisy...

By Kevin Rawlinson, The Independent | 09.02.2009
A 41-year-old woman with a history of miscarriages and 13 failed cycles of IVF treatment has given birth to a...
By Bae Ji-sook, Korea Times | 09.01.2009
The world’s first cloned wolf, “Snuwolf,” was found dead last Saturday at Seoul Grand Park, a Seoul National University (SNU)...
By Oregon Public Broadcasting, Think Out Loud | 09.01.2009
Roughly one out of every 4,000 children in the United States develops a mitochondrial disease before the age of 10...