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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 Malcolm Ritter, Woodland Daily Democrat | 03.31.2008
NEW YORK (AP) -- Scientists are scanning human DNA with a precision and scope once unthinkable and rapidly finding genes...
By Ian Johnston, Telegraph | 03.30.2008

Britain's wildest animal could be cloned to save the species from becoming extinct within 10 years.

The number of Scottish...
By Rebecca Clarren, Salon.com | 03.29.2008

Behind locked doors, past a shower, where humans are required to rinse, more than 25 pink pigs crowd into hay-covered...

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 03.25.2008

In January, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, movers and shakers lined up to spit into test tubes...

By Hidekazu Tanaka, Daily Yomiuri | 03.25.2008

The Science Council of Japan's subcommittee on reproductive assistance medicine recently issued a report that said surrogate births should, in...

By Andrew Porter, Telegraph | 03.24.2008
For Gordon Brown - to whom the Bill means so much - and Geoff Hoon, his chief whip, the prospect...
By BBC, BBC | 03.23.2008

The study in Nature Medicine provides the best evidence so far that the controversial technique could one day help people...

By Marcy Darnovsky, AlterNet | 03.22.2008

For Boomers and the World War II generation, Aldous Huxley's 1932 Brave New World is the touchstone tale of a...