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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 Joseph Brean, National Post | 10.03.2014
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When she was outed as a fraud the other day, Florida’s three-breasted woman revealed a shift in the...

By Joseph Brean, National Post | 10.03.2014
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When she was outed as a fraud the other day, Florida’s three-breasted woman revealed a shift in the...

By André Picard, The Globe and Mail | 10.02.2014
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A controversial California company is going to start selling genetic test kits in Canada, and provide the information...

By Meredith Rodriguez, Chicago Tribune | 10.01.2014

A white Ohio woman is suing a Downers Grove-based sperm bank, alleging that the company mistakenly gave her vials from...

By Meghann Evans, Winston-Salem Journal | 10.01.2014

Elaine Riddick got a call this week that had been more than 40 years in the making.

Riddick, a victim...

By Daniel Cossins, The Scientist | 10.01.2014

Sometimes even the best-known stories have hidden subplots. This January, Nature published two papers describing an astonishing new way...

By Tim Cushing, TechDirt | 09.30.2014
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The FBI's Next Generation Identification (NGI) database has been discussed here several times, thanks to its "expeditious" blend...

By Editorial, The Boston Globe | 09.30.2014
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THE ERA OF direct-to-consumer genetic testing means that anyone can pay $99, spit into a plastic vial, and...