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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 Peter Dizikes, Boston Globe | 06.08.2007

A year after Harvard University scientists began trying to create cloned human embryonic stem cells, they have been stymied by...

By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 06.08.2007

Applying a new genomic technique to a large group of patients, researchers in Britain have detected DNA variations that underlie...

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 06.07.2007

Three teams of scientists said yesterday they had coaxed ordinary mouse skin cells to become what are effectively embryonic stem...

By Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times | 06.05.2007

Many men, faced with the prospect of going to the doctor for a fertility evaluation, will tell you: they would...

By Gretchen Reynolds, New York Times | 06.04.2007

It was a single line from a longer e-mail message. But when read into the record by prosecutors at the...

By Reuters, Reuters | 06.02.2007

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has announced a crackdown on the country's growing fertility sector, vowing to rein in the illegal...

By Daily Express, Daily Express | 06.01.2007

Britain's leading fertility expert condemned the IVF industry, saying it had been corrupted by money and exploited women.

Robert Winston...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Los Angeles Times | 05.31.2007

Originally published May 17, 2007

WHEN Oprah Winfrey talks, people listen - about 8 million every day. Which is why...