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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 Hurriyet Daily News, Hurriyet Daily News | 12.24.2008

ANKARA - The dispute between a main opposition deputy and President Abdullah Gül over the latter's ethnic origin took on...

By Jeffrey Young, The Hill | 12.24.2008
Although President-elect Obama's pledge to change federal policy on stem cell research is not likely to lead to new cures...
By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 12.23.2008
The global financial crisis may do what opponents of California's $3 billion state-sponsored stem cell research experiment could not: dry...
By Todd Ackerman, Houston Chronicle | 12.21.2008
Baylor College of Medicine is at the forefront of new DNA testing that screens fetuses for hundreds of genetic abnormalities...
By Kate Devlin, Telegraph | 12.19.2008
Doctors hope that the child will be able to break a family history of the disease.

The birth could also...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Science Progress | 12.16.2008

The long-awaited stem cell announcement expected soon after inauguration day will be a welcome corrective to the Bush administration’s restrictions...

By Rob Stein and Michelle Boorstein, The Washington Post | 12.13.2008
The Vatican's first authoritative statement on reproductive science in 21 years triggered intense debate yesterday about some of the most...
By Spencer S. Hsu, The Washington Post | 12.12.2008
Immigration and civil liberties groups condemned a new U.S. government policy to collect DNA samples from all noncitizens detained by...