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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 James Pomfret, Reuters | 04.30.2009
With China's rising affluence, increasing numbers of infertile couples have been seeking surrogate mothers to bear them babies.

In recent...
By Joel Achenbach, Washington Post | 04.30.2009
Africans are more diverse genetically than the inhabitants of the rest of the world combined, according to a sweeping study...
By Scientific American, Scientific American | 04.30.2009

On March 3 the cover story of the New York Daily News trumpeted a simple imperative to "Design Your Baby."...

By Alex Wayne, Congressional Quarterly | 04.28.2009

As the Obama administration prepares to greatly expand the government's investments in embryonic stem cell research, the next big biomedical...

By Sarah Barr and Jeannie Baumann, The Bureau of National Affairs | 04.27.2009
The National Institutes of Health April 17 released draft guidelines that would limit government-funded research using human embryonic stem cells...
By Jesse Reynolds, San Francisco Chronicle | 04.27.2009

While juggling a collapsing economy and major initiatives during his first months in office, President Obama tackled - and cooled...

By David Gelles, Financial Times | 04.24.2009
Singularity n. A point of infinite density and infinitesimal volume, at which space and time become infinitely distorted according to...
By Ewen Callaway, New Scientist | 04.23.2009
A cloned beagle named Ruppy – short for Ruby Puppy – is the world's first transgenic dog. She and four...