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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 Lisa M. Krieger, Contra Costa Times | 01.11.2016
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BURLINGAME -- On the kitchen table of his cramped apartment, Josiah Zayner is performing the feat that is...

By Tina Vasquez, RH Reality Check | 01.11.2016
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California sexual and reproductive health organizations were dismayed to find that Gov. Jerry Brown’s $170.7 billion budget proposal...

By Natalie Morton & Sarah Bell, BBC News | 01.11.2016

The number of women using donated sperm to get pregnant is rising, but many find the cost of treatment at...

By Dane Halpin & Nanchanok Wongsamuth, Bangkok Post [Thailand] | 01.10.2016
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The evidence comprised little more than a data table, printed on a single sheet of paper. To Jane...

By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 01.10.2016
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What if a simple blood test could detect any cancer early, when it was still easy to treat...

By Brittany Malooly, VICE Broadly | 01.10.2016

The price for a single vial of sperm in the fertility market goes for anything between $370 to $890 dollars...

By Elizabeth Yuko, The Atlantic | 01.08.2016
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Assisted reproductive technologies, or ART, are more common in the U.S. than they’ve ever been: The Centers for...

By Angela Natividad, Adweek | 01.08.2016

People will do anything to protect a legacy. And Belgium is taking that to the next level.

The...