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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, [Letter to the Editor] New York Times Magazine | 08.26.2007

Peggy Orenstein's article (July 15) about the experiences of women who conceive and bear children using other women's eggs focuses...

By Science Daily, Science Daily | 08.24.2007

The Universities of California, Irvine and San Diego have developed a rapid new sorting technique to screen for faster sperm...

By David A. Lieb, ASSOCIATED PRESS | 08.22.2007
Missouri's battle over embryonic stem cell research intensified today as a new group proposed a ballot measure seeking to outlaw...
By Victoria Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle | 08.21.2007
Want to find out your baby's gender? Or who the father is? What about whether you possess a gene that...
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 08.20.2007

The 36-year-old Illinois woman who died last month after being treated with an experimental gene therapy was infected with a...

By Seth Borenstein, Seattle Post-Intelligencer | 08.19.2007

WASHINGTON -- Around the world, a handful of scientists are trying to create life from scratch and they're getting closer...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, New Scientist | 08.18.2007

Of all the genetically determined traits that we might one day hope to control, skin colour is surely one of...

By Ellen Rosen, New York Times | 08.18.2007

Katherine Holden's family had long kept what she called "a deep dark secret." When the family discussed its roots, there...