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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 Ian Sample, Guardian | 05.03.2007

British scientists are to launch the world's first clinical trials of a controversial gene therapy to cure childhood blindness.

Researchers...

By Independent Online, Independent Online | 05.02.2007

In their quest to start a family, Canadian couples are illegally buying human eggs online, according to an investigation by...

By David van Gend, The National Forum (Australia) | 05.02.2007

It is one of the unhappier jobs of a doctor to tell a patient she is a victim of false...

By Science Daily, Science Daily | 04.28.2007

Nearly 50% of couples who were interviewed at least 3 years after undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) chose to donate...

By Daily Mail, UK Daily Mail | 04.27.2007

Two women are set to become the first to have their embryos screened for the faulty breast cancer gene to...

By Alexander Capron | 04.26.2007

It is a cliché to suggest that we are standing at the edge of a new age, but in terms...

By Benjamin Pimentel, San Francisco Chronicle | 04.25.2007

Biotechnology was the hottest sector in venture capital in the first quarter of this year as investors poured in $7.1...

By Bruce Goldman, Los Angeles Times | 04.24.2007

BIOPSIES are a pain. When they're medically necessary we put up with them. When they're not, most of us would...