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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.

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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Sarah-Kate Templeton, The Times (UK) | 12.23.2007

Deaf parents should be allowed to screen their embryos so they can pick a deaf child over one that has...

By Ellen Nakashima, Washington Post | 12.22.2007

CLARKSBURG, W. Va. -- The FBI is embarking on a $1 billion effort to build the world's largest computer database...

By Melba Newsome, Wired | 12.20.2007

In the summer of 2002, the FBI, the Baton Rouge Police Department, and several other agencies began a massive search...

By Maggie Fox, Reuters | 12.20.2007
Human egg cells can be tweaked to give rise to valued stem cells that match the tissue types of many...
By Richard Hayes, The American Interest (January - February 2008) | 12.20.2007

Some time ago a bright young graduate student was driving me to a conference at a noted Midwestern university...

By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News | 12.20.2007

Persuading the private sector to accept a handout from California's $3 billion stem-cell institute might strike some as a no-brainer...

By The Times, The Times (UK) | 12.19.2007

One of the first children in Britain to receive gene therapy for an immune system disorder has developed leukaemia as...

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 12.17.2007

It has been 50 years since scientists first created DNA in a test tube, stitching ordinary chemical ingredients together to...