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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 Paul Martin, Salon | 03.23.2014
Growing up in Charlottesville, Virginia, in the early 1900s, young Carrie Buck impressed those she met as serious and self-possessed...
By Enola Aird, MomsRising | 03.22.2014
We are heading toward a slippery slope. The United Kingdom is moving closer to allowing scientists to create genetically modified...
By Debesh Banerjee, The Indian Express | 03.21.2014
Twenty-four-year-old Vimlesh Devi has been a surrogate mother for two years. A mother of three and a homemaker, she lives...
By AP, Associated Press | 03.20.2014

A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld California's law requiring people arrested for felonies to submit samples of their DNA...

By Sara Reardon, Nature | 03.20.2014
Leaving a hair at a crime scene could one day be as damning as leaving a photograph of your face...
By Karuna Jaggar, Huffington Post | 03.20.2014

Genetic testing is often heralded as a cornerstone in an imminent and exciting new age of personalized medicine, in which...

By BBC, BBC News | 03.19.2014

In a farm house in north-western Germany, heated by a lively fire in a wood-burning stove, a bulky and bespectacled...

By Erika Check Hayden, Nature News | 03.19.2014
In Silicon Valley, Moore's law seems to stand on equal footing with the natural laws codified by Isaac Newton. Intel...