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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 Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 01.16.2008
The U.S. Department of Agriculture yesterday asked U.S. farmers to keep their cloned animals off the market indefinitely even as...
By David Armstrong, Wall Street Journal | 01.16.2008
NitroMed Inc. is shutting down its effort to market and sell BiDil, the first drug approved for use in a...
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 01.10.2008

Scientists in Massachusetts said today they had created several colonies of human embryonic stem cells without harming the embryos from...

By DPA, DPA | 01.09.2008

Scientists eager to splice human genes with animal cells are seeking a public feedback on the prospect of such controversial...

By Danielle Beeton, Sunderland Echo | 01.08.2008
Scientists are offering infertile Wearside women half-price IVF treatment in return for donating some of their eggs for research.

Women...
By Jane Zhang, John Miller, and Lauren Etter, Wall Street Journal | 01.04.2008

Get ready for a food fight over milk and meat from cloned animals and their offspring.

After more than six...

By William Heisel, Los Angeles Times | 01.03.2008
Troubled by the health history and backgrounds of some anonymous egg and sperm donors, leaders in the fertility industry have...
By Michael Smith, MedPage Today | 12.27.2007
A simple cheek swab can tell you about your ancestry. A bit of blood can tell you how likely you...