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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 Melinda Wenner, Scientific American | 08.15.2008
It's an Olympics year, which means that Lee Sweeney's phone is ringing off the hook. Athletes call him three or...
By John Ribeiro, IDG News Service | 08.14.2008
Microsoft, Google and Yahoo were issued notices by India's Supreme Court on Wednesday, following a complaint that they were promoting...
By Rick Lovett, National Geographic News | 08.14.2008
Although athletes at the Beijing Olympics have been subjected to some of the most aggressive testing ever for performance-enhancing drugs...
By Patrick Barry, ScienceNews | 08.13.2008
This month - 8/8/08, to be precise - the curtain rose on what many experts believe could prove to be...
By GenomeWeb, GenomeWeb | 08.12.2008

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - Geron and Exeter Life Sciences said today that Start Licensing, a joint venture between the...

By KBS World Radio, KBS World Radio | 08.11.2008

The government will draw up measures to compensate people who donate their eggs for fertility treatment.

The Ministry for Health...

By Gabrielle Monaghan, The Sunday Times | 08.10.2008
Hundreds of Irishwomen are travelling to clinics across the Continent to receive IVF treatment using eggs donated from young European...
By Stephanie Smith, CNN | 08.08.2008
With a full load of classes, two young children and her bills piling up, Michelle decided to face her economic...