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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 Marcy Darnovsky, Alternet | 10.19.2007

It's Nobel Prize season, and the Nobel scientists are very much in the news. James Watson, awarded the laureate in...

By Cahal Milmo, The Independent (UK) | 10.17.2007
One of the world's most eminent scientists was embroiled in an extraordinary row last night after he claimed that black...
By BBC news, BBC News | 10.17.2007

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) warned the procedure was still experimental, and the chances of success poor.

It...

By Jessica Arons, Science Progress | 10.16.2007
In our modern world, sex is no longer the exclusive method by which humans reproduce. Science has created a new...
By BBC News, BBC News | 10.15.2007

In theory, cells banked from one embryo could provide treatment for a sibling threatened by serious disease many decades later...

By Peta Hellard, The Daily Telegraph (Australia) | 10.14.2007
Brian Sheldon and Matthew Shaffer are one of several gay couples taking advantage of California's liberal IVF laws.

The couple...
By Anjana Ahuja, The Times (UK) | 10.10.2007
The whiteboard in John Harris’s office declares: “John is cool.” Many hold a different opinion of one of the most...
By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 10.08.2007

BARCELONA, Spain - When schoolchildren turn to the chapter on Christopher Columbus's humble origins as the son of a weaver...