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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 Todd Wallack, Boston Globe | 02.11.2008
The same day that President Bush won a second term, California voters approved a bold plan to pour $3 billion...
By Jamie D. Brooks and Meredith L. King , Genetic Crossroads | 02.07.2008

This joint report [PDF] by the Center for American Progress and the Center for Genetics and Society examines the mainstream...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Genetic Crossroads | 02.07.2008

The field of stem cell research is changing shape almost as fast as the flexible cells themselves. A series of...

By Marilyn Chase, Wall Street Journal | 02.06.2008

A contentious ad campaign for Myriad Genetics Inc.'s breast-cancer gene test has attracted customers and increased sales for several products...

By Maria Cheng, Associated Press | 02.05.2008
British scientists say they have created human embryos containing DNA from two women and a man in a procedure that...
By Jim Giles, New Scientist | 02.02.2008

The race to become the most powerful politician on earth is well under way, and the US is gripped by...

By Peter Aldhous, New Scientist | 02.02.2008

"FEMALE sperm", "male eggs" and "same-sex reproduction" - whether these terms fill you with hope or disgust, a reproductive revolution...

By BBC news, BBC News | 02.02.2008

Health officials say they have accepted that the requirement, currently in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, would hamper vital...