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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 Rebecca Ley, The Sun | 07.15.2008
WITH her neat clothes and immaculate make-up, Lucy Sutton looks like a career woman in control of every detail in...
By Times of India, Times of India | 07.14.2008

Taking a serious note of the poor implementation of pre-conception and pre-natal diagnostics techniques (prohibition of sex selection) (PCPNDT) Act...

By Ross Lydall, The Scotsman | 07.11.2008
GORDON Brown, the Prime Minister, yesterday made a play for Catholic voters in the Glasgow East by-election by postponing a...
By AsiaNews/Agencies, AsiaNews/Agencies | 07.10.2008

Vietnam could experience a major social crisis as a result of a skewed birth rate. Traditionally and for historical reasons...

By HealthDay News, HealthDay News | 07.09.2008

WEDNESDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) -- Scientists say they have finally succeeded in developing human embryonic stem cells earlier in...

By Rafael Epstein, ABC News | 07.03.2008
The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) is looking into gene therapy, where an athlete's DNA might be treated to improve healing...
By Carl T. Hall, California | 07.03.2008

Nobody's perfect. Not even Tim McNeill. A three-time All-American gymnast and team co-captain at Berkeley, in April McNeill won two...

By Sify News, Sify News | 06.26.2008

New Delhi: Concerned with an increasing number of foreigners coming to India to rent a womb, the government is planning...