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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 Stephanie M. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.08.2014

No genetic test is needed to predict a bright future for Counsyl.

Armed with $28 million in new venture capital, the...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 05.07.2014

Scientists reported Wednesday that they had taken a significant step toward altering the fundamental alphabet of life — creating an...

By Helen Chernikoff, The Jewish Week | 05.07.2014
‘Give me children or I shall die,” said Rachel to her husband Jacob, speaking for many women of the Bible...
By Nancy Fliesler, Vector | 05.05.2014

Last November, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a “cease and desist” order to 23andMe, a major purveyor of...

By Mario Ledwith and Fiona Macrae, Daily Mail | 05.05.2014
Breakthroughs in IVF could ‘threaten our humanity’ by prompting parents to demand designer babies, Robert Winston has warned.

The fertility...
By Andrea Kissack, KQED | 05.05.2014
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Consumers who want to find out about their genetic health risks without going to the doctor and paying...

By Randy Shore, Vancouver Sun | 05.04.2014

Whole genome sequencing has officially entered the medical mainstream and kicked off an era of truly personalized medicine.

California-based Illumina...

By Michael Cook, BioEdge | 05.04.2014
An investigation at the University of Utah is testing the presumption that IVF clinics are delivering babies who are the...