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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 Bernadette Tansey, San Francisco Chronicle | 06.01.2008

Dr. Mark Hughes likes to startle audiences by declaring that sex may become outdated as a means of human reproduction...

By RNW's Dutch service, Radio Netherlands Worldwide | 05.31.2008
Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende's fourth cabinet has narrowly avoided its first internal crisis since coming to power in...
By Angela Stewart, The Star-Ledger | 05.31.2008

After Darrell Cooper was diagnosed with heart failure five years ago, doctors tried an array of medications to keep his...

By Lynda Hurst, The Star | 05.31.2008

In just 30 years time, 1,100 different species of animals - fully one-quarter of all known mammals - are expected...

By Carl Elliott, M.D., Ph.D., and Roberto Abadie, Ph.D., The New England Journal of Medicine | 05.29.2008
In November 1996, the Wall Street Journal reported that Eli Lilly was paying homeless alcoholics from a local shelter to...
By Nature, Nature | 05.28.2008

Last week, an expert committee in Japan's science ministry agreed to lift a 2001 ban on human cloning for research...

By Judith Graham, Chicago Tribune | 05.26.2008

A new medical test for women who want to check their biological clocks is debuting in Chicago amid concerns about...

By BBC News, BBC News | 05.23.2008

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill would allow the selection of embryos that are a tissue match for a sick...