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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 MSNBC, MSNBC | 05.30.2007

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A Dutch reality show that claims to be trying to draw attention to a shortage of organ...

By Sujatha Jesudason | 05.30.2007

By France 24, France 24 | 05.29.2007

Swedish authorities have granted three families the right to screen embryos to create a child who can be a stem...

By MSNBC, MSNBC | 05.28.2007

CHICAGO - Turning off a gene that has been associated with Alzheimer's disease made mice smarter in the lab, researchers...

By MSNBC, MSNBC | 05.26.2007

WASHINGTON - Stem cells taken from the umbilical cords of newborns can be engineered to produce insulin and may someday...

By Verne Kopytoff, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.24.2007

Google Inc.'s latest investment is all in the family, so to speak.

The Mountain View Internet company has invested $3.9...

By Liza Mundy, Washington Post | 05.21.2007

THE MEDICAL PRACTICE OF MARK EVANS IS LOCATED ON THE GROUND FLOOR OF A MANHATTAN TOWNHOUSE, nestled discreetly among the...

By Daily Mail, Daily Mail (UK) | 05.19.2007

Scientists are a step closer to creating human-animal chimera embryos after the Government performed a U-turn over banning the controversial...