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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 Gallup, Gallup | 08.01.2003

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

By Manisha Gupte | 07.31.2003
By Gina Maranto, Los Angeles Times | 07.25.2003

Louise Brown, the world's first test-tube baby, turns 25 today, and it certainly seems like a reason to celebrate. Brown...

By Pete Shanks, San Jose Mercury News | 07.24.2003

The birth of Louise Brown in Oldham, England, on July 25, 1978, was front-page news all over the world. Time...

By Pete Shanks, San Francisco Chronicle | 07.23.2003

Twenty-five years ago, the use of in vitro fertilization to conceive the first "test-tube" baby provoked an important debate --...

By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times | 07.21.2003

Peering into the genetic code of an eight-cell creature scarcely stirs excitement anymore in labs across America. But when the...

By Stacy Robison, Genetic Crossroads | 07.11.2003
For three days in June, scholars, computer programmers, scientists, social theorists, and bioethicists gathered at Yale University for Transvision USA...
By Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times | 07.04.2003
One of the most profound and layered questions raised by recent genetic advances is this: Do we as a species...