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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 Kathleen Kerr, Newsday | 08.01.2014
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Ted Tiller gets around his Huntington home in a wheelchair, battling a rare disease that has left him...

By Ian Sample, The Guardian [UK] | 07.31.2014
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Tens of thousands of NHS patients are to be invited to donate their DNA for research as part...

By Lindsay Murdoch, The Sydney Morning Herald | 07.31.2014
Gammy, a six-month-old baby abandoned by his Australian parents, could die because his impoverished Thai surrogate mother cannot pay for...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 07.31.2014
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The Food and Drug Administration announced on Thursday that it would start regulating medical laboratory testing, saying that...

By Rebecca J. Rosen, The Atlantic | 07.31.2014

The word "bank" typically refers to financial institutions, large and small, from the storefront where you go to cash your...

By Gloria Galloway, The Globe and Mail | 07.30.2014
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Would-be parents who turn to in vitro fertilization to conceive children will find inconsistent oversight of fertility clinics...

By Deccan Herald, Deccan Herald [India] | 07.29.2014

A recent United Nations study has pointed out the worsening trend in gender based sex selection practices – elimination of...

By Amanda Wilson, Pacific Standard | 07.29.2014
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Most people are now familiar with big data and how it’s used to target advertising or suggest love...