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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 Meghana Keshavan, STAT News | 06.20.2016

A semen centrifuge is the newest direct-to-consumer fertility device on the market. The Trak, a desktop gadget that measures a man’s sperm count...

By Mark Joseph Stern, Slate | 06.20.2016

The Supreme Court issued an extraordinarily disappointing 5–3 decision on Monday in Utah v. Strieff, a Fourth Amendment case...

Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital.
By Associated Press [Urayasu, Japan], The Guardian | 06.20.2016

A Tokyo suburb will help women cover the cost of freezing their eggs in a pilot programme that aims to...

By James D. Miller, Business Insider | 06.19.2016

Once we understand the genetic architecture of human intelligence, couples will use existing fertility technologies to increase their offsprings' average...

By Melody Petersen, The Los Angeles Times | 06.19.2016

The ads for the new blood test, dubbed “the cancer stethoscope,” were designed to grab attention from even the healthiest...

By Stephanie M. Lee, BuzzFeed News | 06.18.2016

Sometime next year, you may hear about a new way to save money on your health insurance. To get the...

By Aaron E. Carroll, The New York Times | 06.17.2016

There is no question that the Tuskegee study is one of the most horrific examples of unethical research in recent...

By Angel Petropanagos, New Scientist | 06.17.2016

What should you do when you have a population that is shrinking and ageing amid a very low national birth...