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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 David Hamilton, The Industry Standard | 03.03.2008

Last week, the Irvine, Calif., startup PrimeGen Biotech made a startling claim: It had successfully transformed adult skin, kidney and...

By John Lauerman, Bloomberg | 02.29.2008
A Harvard University scientist backed by Google Inc. and OrbiMed Advisors LLC plans to unlock the secrets of common diseases...
By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times | 02.24.2008
Amid the tumult of the delivery room, Rohit and Geeta Jain were calm about one thing: Their new baby was...
By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 02.24.2008
Victoria Grove wanted to find out if she was destined to develop the form of emphysema that ran in her...
By Terri Somers, San Diego Union Tribune | 02.23.2008
A bipartisan bill introduced in the state Senate yesterday would authorize California's Little Hoover Commission to investigate how the state...
By Sue Shellenbarger, Wall Street Journal | 02.14.2008
Lucia Vazquez, 33, a single New Yorker, is a sensible professional, her friends say. She works hard at her career...
By AFP, AFP | 02.13.2008

A Japanese company will soon start advising people what they should eat and how they should exercise based on custom-made...

By Aaron Smith, CNNMoney | 02.11.2008
The first experiments using human embryonic stem cells in human subjects could begin within a few months, the chief executive...