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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 Marisa Taylor, Red Herring | 04.24.2007

Berkeley, California, home of leftist politics and aging flower children, is sometimes mocked as a hippie outpost. But the university...

By Sally Lehrman, Boston Globe | 04.20.2007

DOES A "genetic component" cause a higher rate of premature births among black mothers? Do black people carry certain gene...

By Marcy Darnovsky and Susan Berke Fogel, Science | 04.20.2007

The newly issued International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research (G. Q. Daley...

By Peter Wonacott, Wall Street Journal | 04.19.2007

INDERGARH, India -- General Electric Co. and other companies have sold so many ultrasound machines in India that tests are...

By David Hamilton, Venture Beat | 04.17.2007

For what appears to be the first time, a major drug company has plunked down a significant equity investment in...

By Salem News, Salem-News.com | 04.15.2007

(SALEM) - Oregon State Representative Donna Nelson (R-McMinnville) proposes a state ban on human cloning.

House Bill 2662 would make...

By Roxanne Khamsi, New Scientist | 04.14.2007

In a first step towards creating artificial sperm cells, researchers have turned human bone marrow tissue into primitive sperm cells...

By Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times | 04.14.2007

Adrienne Domasin always envisioned someday holding her newborn in her arms. Little did she know that she would make history...