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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 W. Carson Byrd & Matthew W. Hughey, Washington Post | 09.28.2015
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This month, Jennifer Cramblett lost her “wrongful birth” lawsuit, which centered on a troubling ideology that...

By Jim Brown, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | 09.27.2015

If you're a would-be Canadian parent with a patriotic bent and you're looking for help conceiving, there could be cause...

By Kristina Davis, The San Diego Union-Tribune | 09.27.2015

SAN DIEGO — The fate of as many as 500,000 DNA samples collected from felony arrestees and stored in a...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 09.25.2015
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Scientists in Boston have come up with a twist on an important method for “editing” genomes that could...

By Elizabeth Church, The Globe and Mail | 09.25.2015

It was a promise on a truly motherhood issue. In the spring of 2014, the Ontario Liberals, fighting to hold...

By Kelly Servick, Science | 09.25.2015
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How much do your eyes water when cutting onions? Does fresh cilantro taste like soap to you? Do...

By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 09.25.2015
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More and more groups are amassing computer server–busting amounts of human DNA. Science's informal survey found at...

By Dalton Conley, Nautilus | 09.24.2015
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A report from a future where genetic engineering has sabotaged society.

The not-so-young parents sat in the...