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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 Ron Winslow, Wall Street Journal | 02.12.2007

Five soldiers at a military base in Texas are about to participate in a remarkable test to see if they...

By Gareth Cook, Boston Globe | 02.12.2007

Scientists announced yesterday the discovery of important genetic clues to diabetes, opening a new chapter in the study of the...

By Krittivas Mukherjee, Reuters | 02.12.2007

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Jyoti Dave is pregnant, but when the 30-year-old gives birth in March the baby will not be...

By Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Bee | 02.12.2007

California's stem cell research institute has received little attention of late, and agency officials probably prefer it that way. But...

By Reuters, Reuters | 02.07.2007

If some children seem like they were born to be bad, new research suggests it may be true.

In a...

By David Hamilton, Slate | 02.06.2007

As Congress hunts for ways to push its stem-cell bill past an expected veto, states are charging ahead on their...

By Denise Grady, New York Times | 02.06.2007

If people want to choose their baby's sex before pregnancy, should doctors help?

Some parents would love the chance to...

By Aria Pearson, New Scientist | 02.01.2007

The first international guidelines on human embryonic stem cell research, released on Thursday, echo public opinion in calling for a...