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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 Li Yan, Global Times | 06.17.2014
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Business is booming in the Chinese mainland's ovary egg donation black market where agencies advertise their underground services...

By Jane Ridley, New York Post | 06.16.2014
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When Jessica Kern gave evidence to lawmakers in Washington, DC, last summer opposing the legalization of surrogacy in...

By Swapna Majundar, Thomson Reuters Foundation | 06.16.2014
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When Yuma Sherpa told doctors at a private fertility clinic here that she wanted to back out, her...

By Paolo Bianco & Douglas Sipp, Nature | 06.16.2014
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Modern medicine depends on products that must pass rigorous tests for safety and efficacy before being marketed to...

By Elena Cattaneo & Gilberto Corbellini, Nature | 06.16.2014
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Scientists get the most satisfaction from working long hours at the bench with like-minded colleagues, but sometimes their...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 06.15.2014
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Fertility treatment in the UK is an unregulated "jungle" where anxious couples are routinely offered IVF and other...

By Vardit Ravitsky, Impact Ethics | 06.13.2014
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Elective or ‘social’ egg freezing is a relatively new option available to younger women who are not yet...

By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 06.13.2014
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An infant delivered last week in California appears to be the first healthy person ever born in the...