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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 Ian Sample, The Guardian | 11.05.2015
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A baby girl with aggressive leukaemia has become the first in the world to be treated with designer...

By Jacoba Urist, The Atlantic | 11.04.2015
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The terminology used to describe women who sell their eggs only makes things more complicated: The medical community...

By Dominic Basulto, The Washington Post | 11.04.2015
Untitled Document In just the past nine months, venture capitalists have plunked down more than $200 million in start-up companies developing an...
By Mairi Levitt, The Guardian | 11.03.2015
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The phrase “designer babies” has been bandied around for decades, but parents seeking to design a baby currently...

By Denis Campbell, The Guardian | 11.02.2015
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Fourteen babies have been born following the injection of very immature sperm cells into eggs – a technique...

By Wiktor Szary, Reuters | 10.30.2015
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Poland's ombudsman has challenged a new law on in-vitro fertilization (IVF) as unconstitutional, saying it should not stop...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 10.30.2015
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When last we visited with the genetic testing firm 23andMe, it was in big trouble.

That was in...

By Lindsay Murdoch, Sydney Morning Herald | 10.30.2015
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Bangkok: A booming surrogacy industry chased out of Thailand and Nepal has turned to Cambodia, where many Australians...