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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 Judy Norsigian, Infertility Family Research Registry | 03.26.2014
As the demand increases for young women to provide their eggs for both fertility and research purposes, the lack of...
By Chris Chipello, McGill | 03.26.2014

Should whole-genome sequencing be used in the public-health programs that screen newborns for rare conditions?

That question is likely to...
By Lori Jane Gliha, AlJazeera America | 03.24.2014
Celia Vandegrift jokes that she is "senile" at the age of 87, but her memory is sharp when it comes...
By Ramesh Shankar, PharmaBiz | 03.24.2014
The 'National Guidelines for Stem Cell Research', issued recently by the union health ministry, has prohibited stem cell research in...
By Paul Voosen, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 03.24.2014
For a few years, the biological notion of race seemed dead and gone.

It was one of the high points...
By David Tenenbaum, University of Wisconsin-Madison News | 03.24.2014
Desperate patients are easy prey for unscrupulous clinics offering untested and risky stem cell treatments, says UW-Madison law and bioethics...
By Leigh Turner, Impact Ethics | 03.24.2014
Last week, Kirstin Borgerson, a philosopher at Dalhousie University, published a thoughtful commentary on my colleague Carl Elliott’s persistent call...
By Calvin Trice, News Leader | 03.23.2014
Lewis Reynolds served for 30 years in the U.S. Marine Corps, during which he fought in the Korean and Vietnam...