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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 Andale Gross, Sci-Tech Today | 07.24.2007

Eight months ago, Missouri seemed well on its way to becoming a national leader in stem cell research. Voters amended...

By Brandon Keim, Wired blog | 07.23.2007

Early in 2004, the high-profile biotech company Geron predicted that clinical trials of its first stem cell therapy would start...

By Terri Sforza, Orange County Register | 07.23.2007

More than 100 fertility doctors in dozens of states may have brokered unauthorized transfers of human eggs, according to the...

By Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times | 07.23.2007

Earlier this year in Gujarat, India, I came across a most unusual kind of outsourcing: womb-rental.

Americans looking for a...

By Dennis Normile, Science | 07.20.2007

In a sign that hopes for quick medical benefits from stem cells are fading, ES Cell International (ESI)--a company established...

By Rita Rubin, USA Today | 07.16.2007

Jolene Sodano spent more than $200 to make herself crazy for a big chunk of her third pregnancy.

You see...

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 07.15.2007

Can the long-extinct mammoth be resurrected through the alchemy of modern biology?

Such hopes were raised yet again last week...

By Peggy Orenstein, New York Times Magazine | 07.15.2007

Two Years ago, when Catherine was in sixth grade, she was given a school assignment that would have been unremarkable...