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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 Marcy Darnovsky, Modern Healthcare | 04.13.2009

Each year, assisted reproduction quietly helps thousands of people in their quest for children biologically related to them. But the...

By Alexa Olesen, Associated Press | 04.10.2009
China has 32 million more young men than young women — a gender gap that could lead to increasing crime...
By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt, MSN Money | 04.09.2009
How much would you pay to know your past -- or your future? A number of new companies are asking...
By Rina Chandran, Reuters | 04.08.2009
Shabnam had dreamed of owning a home for years, but with few prospects for her husband, she followed the lead...
By Bella English, Boston Globe | 04.07.2009
Charitable donations may be down because of the recession, but another type of donation is up for the very same...
By Walter F. Roche Jr., Pittshburgh Tribune-Review | 04.04.2009
A University of Pittsburgh stem cell researcher has renewed his efforts to win a patent on a process to clone...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 04.02.2009
In a worldwide survey of 50 populations, a team of geneticists has identified many fingerprints of natural selection in the...
By KFBB, KFBB | 04.01.2009

The bill to ban human cloning in the state of Montana has officially been signed by Governor Schweitzer.

The controversial...