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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 Leena Rao, Fortune | 02.18.2016
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Piraye Yurttas Beim had a shocking request for the makeup artist at the Yves St. Laurent counter at...

By Katie O'Reilly, The Atlantic | 02.18.2016
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When a woman agrees to become a gestational surrogate—meaning she’ll gestate an IVF-created embryo as it grows into...

By Christina Farr, Fast Company | 02.17.2016
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Jennifer Marie* should be an ideal candidate for life insurance: She’s 36, gainfully employed, and has no current...

By Carol Goar, The Star [Toronto] | 02.17.2016
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Former Toronto police chief Bill Blair hailed DNA collection as “a revolutionary crime-fighting tool.”

With a blood...

By Quil Lawrence, NPR | 02.17.2016
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Midway through Matt Keil's second deployment in Iraq, he came home and married his fiancee, Tracy, in 2007...

By Clare Fogarty, The McGill Tribune | 02.16.2016
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On Feb. 6, the McGill Journal of Law and Health held its eighth Annual Colloquium, with this year...

By U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation | 02.16.2016

Allison Layton, who owned a California company called Miracles Egg Donation (Miracles), claimed she was in the business of helping...

By Amitha Kalaichandran, Huffington Post [Canada] | 02.16.2016
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This past November I had the opportunity take part in TEDMED as a TEDMED Scholar. The week consisted...