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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 Cathy Edwards, BBC | 06.21.2014
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Could an IVF kit that fits in a shoebox and some kitchen cupboard essentials provide hope for people...

By BBC, BBC | 06.20.2014

Kiran and Bina Salvi, from Bolton, travelled out three months ago to collect their surrogate twins.

Labour MP Julie Hilling...

By Timothy Caulfield, Toronto Globe and Mail | 06.20.2014
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Who owns your tissue? Do you have a right to control what happens to your cells and all...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 06.20.2014
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A new article in Bioethics criticises the moral bioenhancement debate as misguided and founded on gratuitous assumptions. 

The...

By Corey G. Johnson, CFIR | 06.19.2014
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The California state auditor today blasted federal and state oversight of sterilization surgeries for female prison inmates, finding numerous illegal...

By Steven Rose, The Guardian | 06.19.2014
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Fantasies of human enhancement have a long history, from early myths about supernormal strength and eternal life to 20th-century...

By Health Canal, Health Canal | 06.18.2014

The approval of a new treatment method by which three parents will be able to beget a child is being...

By Amanda Marcotte, Slate | 06.18.2014
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Put this in the "can they even do that?" files. Jesse Lee Herald of Edinburg, Virginia, received an...