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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 Mildred K. Cho & David Magnus, Nature Reports Stem Cells | 09.27.2007
Therapeutic misconception is a problem for all research aimed at developing treatments for human diseases. The term "therapeutic misconception" was...
By Steven Kotler, LA Weekly | 09.26.2007
The world's largest collections of stored genetic material are found in Sussex, England, Spitsbergen, Norway - and Los Angeles.

Sussex...
By Colin Nickerson, Boston Globe | 09.24.2007

The science of life is undergoing changes so jolting that even its top researchers are feeling something akin to shell-shock...

By Editors, New York Times | 09.24.2007

Stem cell research in the United States has been hobbled for years by severe and misguided restrictions on federal funding...

By Jesse Reynolds, AlterNet | 09.20.2007

In a recent review of 23 internet companies by a consumer watchdog group, Privacy International, Google was the only one...

By BBC, BBC | 09.19.2007

They extracted early-stage sperm cells from mice, then turned them into cells capable of becoming different tissues.

Writing in Nature...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Colorlines (Sept / Oct 2007) | 09.19.2007

300 is arguably the most racially charged movie since D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. In true post-9/11...

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 09.18.2007

Where do moral rules come from? From reason, some philosophers say. From God, say believers. Seldom considered is a source...