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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 Gallup, Gallup | 05.07.2009

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

By Alison Motluk, New Scientist | 05.07.2009
A human ovary grown in the lab from slivers of ovarian tissue has been able to turn an immature egg...
By Luke Timmerman, Xconomy | 05.07.2009
Targeted Genetics, one of the diehards in the field of gene therapy, appears to be near the end of the...
By Grace Wong, CNN | 05.06.2009
LONDON, England (CNN) -- If you want to peer inside your DNA, there's no shortage of companies offering avenues for...
By Ben Protess, ProPublica | 05.05.2009

Kellie Greene spent three years living in fear, waiting for police to catch the stranger who raped her.

Her fear...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Science Progress | 05.05.2009

The recent media storm over the in vitro fertilization-induced birth of octuplets has receded into the tabloids and entertainment pages...

By Françoise Baylis, Toronto Globe and Mail | 05.04.2009
I recently had the privilege of going to the Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa to listen to the Attorney-General...
By Bob Grant, The Scientist | 04.30.2009
Merck paid an undisclosed sum to Elsevier to produce several volumes of a publication that had the look of a...