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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 Aliya Sternstein, Nextgov | 09.23.2014
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The FBI is preparing to accelerate the collection of DNA profiles for the government's massive new biometric identification database.

Developers...

By Keith Perry, The Telegraph [UK] | 09.23.2014
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Criminals including murderers and rapists could attempt to have their convictions overturned after the Home Office admitted that...

By Nectar Gan, South China Morning Post | 09.23.2014
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An illicit surrogacy trade is burgeoning in the Chinese capital Beijing, where would-be parents can pay surrogate mothers...

By Thao Vi - An Dien, Thanh Nien News | 09.23.2014
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 “We are startled by the sex ratios at birth in some communes in the Red River Delta, which...
By Zócalo Public Square, Zócalo Public Square | 09.23.2014

How can we prevent these technologies from falling into the wrong hands?

Synthetic biology has been called “genetic engineering...

By Mohit Kumar Jolly, The Conversation | 09.23.2014

Walter Gilbert won the Nobel Prize in 1980 in Chemistry for his contribution to sequence DNA, or “determination of base...

By Denis Grady and Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 09.22.2014
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Jennifer was 39 and perfectly healthy, but her grandmother had died young from breast cancer, so she decided...

By Lisa Ikemoto, The New York Times, Room for Debate | 09.22.2014
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Surrogacy forms the basis of a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States and globally. The top surrogacy...