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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 Wendy Kramer, Huffington Post | 11.25.2015
I can't help but wonder when the sperm banks and egg clinics will start acknowledging that there is no such...
By Eliza Barclay, NPR | 11.25.2015

If egg freezing once sounded like science fiction, those days are over. Women now hear about it from their friends...

By Rob Stein, NPR | 11.25.2015
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Throughout history, atrocities have been committed in the name of medical research.

Nazi doctors experimented on concentration camp...

By David Wagner, KPBS | 11.24.2015
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A select group of blood donors at this year's Chargers Blood Drive gave one extra tube of blood...

By Yasmin Tayag, Inverse | 11.23.2015
When Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca premiered in 1997, the chances that society could adopt a genome-driven New World Order were still...
By Robert Pear, The New York Times | 11.23.2015
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WASHINGTON — Inaccurate and unreliable medical tests are prompting abortions, promoting unnecessary surgeries, putting tens of thousands of...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 11.23.2015
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The students in Anthony James’s basement insectary at the University of California, Irvine, knew they’d broken the laws...

By Debora Spar, Fortune | 11.21.2015
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There’s something funny about the U.S. market for eggs. No, not the kind that spring from chickens and...