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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...

DNA Microarray
By The 180 with Jim Brown, CBC Radio | 11.06.2016

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So you send your DNA off to an ancestry company, and get a report back that says you're...

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By Lauren Kirchner, ProPublica | 11.04.2016

Late on a hot August night in 2014, Syracuse, New York, police tried to pull over a car driving without...

DNA agarose gel on a UV lightbox
By Taunya English, The Pulse, Newsworks | 11.04.2016

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Often we think research and medicine are above the fray, but in an...

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By Lindsay Murdoch, The Sydney Morning Herald | 11.04.2016

Bangkok: Cambodia has moved to shut down its booming commercial surrogacy industry that has attracted several dozen Australian couples seeking to...

Side by side portraits of 2016 Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
By C.U.N.Y. Graduate School of Journalism, Scientific American | 11.03.2016

Plenty of sex, lies and videotape, but silence on pressing science policy issues from the presidential aspirants

In this election...

Illustration which displays the shape of Cambodia's borders, colored as if it their national flag. At the center, there is a red outlined temple.
By AFP, Channel News Asia | 11.03.2016

PHNOM PENH: Cambodia has become the latest country to issue a ban on commercial surrogacy after curbs on the industry...

Logo of German Institute of Medical Documentation and Information (DIMDI) in Cologne.
By Ben Knight, Deutsche Welle | 11.03.2016

Germany is planning a central sperm donor database to make it easier for children to use their legal right to

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Food display of fruits, vegetables, nuts, breads, and meats.
By Julia Belluz, Vox | 11.02.2016

Yet another Bay Area startup is promising to revolutionize health. In the tradition of Theranos, which tried to democratize...