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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 Bradley J. Fikes, The San Diego Union-Tribune | 07.20.2016

The modern era’s dramatic advances in medical care relies on more than scientists, doctors and biomedical companies. None of it...

By Michael Cook, Mercatornet | 07.20.2016

In 2004 the editors of the journal Foreign Policy asked several prominent intellectuals to identify the world’s most dangerous idea...

By Renate van der Zee, Al Jazeera [Czech Republic] | 07.19.2016

Ostrava, Czech Republic - "To be able to have children is so important for a woman," says Elena Gorolova. "When...

By Catherine Saint Louis, The New York Times | 07.19.2016

Women undergoing in vitro fertilization have long worried that the procedure could raise their risk for breast cancer.

After...

By Sharon Begley, STAT | 07.18.2016

WASHINGTON — At scientific meetings on genome-editing, you’d expect researchers to show pretty slides of the ribbony 3-D structure of the...

By Mike Orcutt, MIT Technology Review | 07.18.2016

With the right technologies to collect and make sense of biomedical information, we could speed up the pace of discoveries...

By Laura Entis, Fortune | 07.18.2016

The ads, which played on the radio, in television commercials on channels from HGTV to CNN and in Google searches...

By Alan Tovey, The Telegraph | 07.18.2016

A recruitment company appears to have embraced the controversial subject of eugenics, rebranding itself as Gattaca – taking the name...