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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 Ellen Wallwork, ParentDish | 08.26.2014
A British surrogate mother of twins has said the intended mother rejected one of the babies because she was born...
By Alison Diana, Information Week | 08.25.2014
For decades, hospitals have conducted blood tests on newborns, checking babies for various conditions, treatable and not. Today's less costly...
By Steve Connor, The Independent (UK) | 08.25.2014
A private fertility clinic in the United States has launched an investigation into the health of 17 teenagers who were...
By Louise Milligan, ABC | 08.25.2014
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CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: It's perfectly rational for someone who is desperately ill...
By Peter Ubel, Forbes | 08.25.2014

The first time scientists sequenced a person’s entire genome, it took more than a decade and cost hundreds of millions...

By Kevin Rawlinson, The Guardian | 08.23.2014
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Interpol has launched an investigation into an alleged "baby factory" after it emerged that a Japanese businessman had...

By Howard Brody, Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma | 08.23.2014

Jack E. James, who appears to hail from either Reykjavik University in Iceland or the National University of Ireland in...

By The Australian, The Australian | 08.21.2014

THE state government says its world-first legislation will balance the rights of donors with those of donor-conceived people who wish...