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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...

Microscope image of H1N1 virus
By Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR | 06.19.2018

New genetic tools are making it easier and cheaper to engineer viruses and bacteria, and a report commissioned by the...

A pregnant woman in a blue dress holds her stomach and gazes at the camera.
By Fay Schopen, The Guardian | 06.18.2018

I don’t consider myself to be lucky. I have never won the lottery, or even found a fiver in an...

A gloved hand inserts a pipette of clear liquid into a test tube.
By Maud Newton, The New York Times | 06.18.2018

By now, millions of us have taken ancestry tests. We’ve spit into tubes and allowed our genetic information to be...

Image of the Toronto skyline at sunset.
By CTVNews.ca Staff, CTV News | 06.18.2018

An Ontario couple has filed notice of legal action against a Toronto fertility clinic after an alleged storage tank malfunction...

A computer generated animation of a cross-section of a human heart beating.
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN | 06.18.2018

In our human genome, there are many elusive genetic variants related to medical conditions, but the impact of these...

MyGene Genetic Testing Kit including 2 swabs for collecting samples and ID card for customer
By Rob Stein, NPR | 06.18.2018

Rita Adele Steyn's mother had a double mastectomy in her 40s because she had so many lumps in her breasts...

An artist's rendering of a futuristic-looking human figure made up of nitrogenous bases A, T, C, and G.
By Eric Rosenbaum, CNBC [Cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 06.16.2018

The business of personal genetic-testing kits is booming, with consumers able to learn about their ancestry and health risks at...

A pregnant woman in a pink dress holds her stomach.
By Elizabeth Katkin, Marie Claire | 06.15.2018

After six miscarriages, six fresh in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycles, two frozen IVF cycles, and one healthy not yet two-year-old...