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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 Barry Kellman, San Francisco Chronicle | 07.08.2007

For $1,000, you soon will be able to purchase the text of your own DNA -- the unique sequence of...

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 07.08.2007

FORGET genetic engineering. The new idea is synthetic biology, an effort by engineers to rewire the genetic circuitry of living...

By Dana Goldstein, In These Times | 07.06.2007
The mapping of the human genome, first completed in 2000, vastly accelerated research into the genetic causes of human disease...
By Anna Salleh, ABC News (Australia) | 07.06.2007

An Australian researcher says demand for eggs for stem-cell research will put vulnerable women at increased pressure to sell their...

By Kevin B. O'Reilly, American Medical Association (amednews.com) | 07.03.2007

One hundred years ago, Eddie Millard was sentenced to the Indiana Reformatory in Jeffersonville after being convicted of petty larceny...

By Denise Caruso, New York Times | 07.02.2007

The $73.5 billion global biotech business may soon have to grapple with a discovery that calls into question the scientific...

By Jamie D. Brooks | 07.01.2007

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By Osagie K. Obasogie, Genetic Crossroads | 06.29.2007

Much ink has been spilled over the Institute of Medicine's (IOM) recent recommendation to loosen federal restrictions on using prisoners...