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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 Terri Somers, San Diego Union Tribune | 05.18.2007

The state Supreme Court yesterday delivered a final, fatal blow to the legal challenges that have prevented California from issuing...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Bioethics Forum | 05.18.2007

Since the 2005 discovery that the SLC24A5 gene variant plays a sizable role in human skin pigmentation, scientists have become...

By MARIA CHENG, Associated Press | 05.17.2007

LONDON — A new test dubbed "Pink or Blue" promises to tell parents the sex of their fetus six weeks...

By Joyce E. Cutler, Bureau of National Affairs | 05.17.2007

The California Supreme Court refused May 16 to consider a constitutional challenge to the state stem cell initiative, clearing the...

By Gary Robbins, Orange County Register | 05.16.2007

UC Irvine will become one of the few centers in the world with a major program in therapeutic cloning, the...

By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 05.14.2007

As the number of women delaying motherhood continues to rise, many fertility clinics are starting to offer a new service...

By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 05.13.2007
SARAHLYNN LESTER, 32, considers herself a supporter of abortion rights. She gives money to the National Abortion Rights Action League...
By New Scientist, New Scientist | 05.13.2007

Humans have a unique variant of a gene linked with learning and memory. This may help explain how we rapidly...