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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 Theodora Ross, The New York Times | 08.16.2014

DALLAS — ON Aug. 6, researchers announced in The New England Journal of Medicine that they had found that mutations...

By Jane Ridley, New York Post | 08.13.2014

Fashionable New York professional women gathered at a first-of-its-kind “egg-freezing party” this week — where they sipped champagne while learning...

By Sarah S. Richardson, Cynthia R. Daniels, Matthew W. Gillman, Janet Golden, Rebecca Kukla, Christopher Kuzawa & Janet Rich-Edwards, Nature | 08.13.2014

From folk medicine to popular culture, there is an abiding fascination with how the experiences of pregnant women imprint on...

By Candice Marcus, ABC | 08.13.2014
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A High Court ruling that DNA evidence was not enough to convict a man of murder could have...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 08.13.2014

No one could have predicted that Oscar-winning comedian Robin Williams would kill himself.

Or could they?

When someone commits suicide...

By The Guardian, The Guardian | 08.13.2014

Thailand's military government gave preliminary approval for a draft law to make commercial surrogacy a criminal offence, following a...

By Nell GreenfieldBoyce, NPR | 08.13.2014

A smoldering debate about whether researchers should ever deliberately create superflu strains and other risky germs in the interest of...

By Council for Responsible Genetics, Council for Responsible Genetics | 08.12.2014

The current structure of biobanks in the United States is missing substantial federal and state policies to address and resolve people’s privacy...