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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 Jessica Cussins, RH Reality Check | 03.13.2014

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) held a public meeting in late February to consider experimental new techniques that would...

By Press Release, Care | 03.13.2014
New polling released by the charity CARE this morning supports the concern expressed by MPs yesterday afternoon that the Government...
By Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker | 03.12.2014
Sometime in the summer of 1914, probably on September 1st but perhaps a few days earlier, the last passenger pigeon...
By David Ewing Duncan, Newsweek | 03.12.2014
Keeping track of what we reveal about ourselves each day—through email and text messages, Amazon purchases and Facebook "likes"—is hard...
By Sara Bergstresser, Voices in Bioethics | 03.12.2014

The first time I heard Adrienne Asch speak, she had assumed her role as a respected and influential member of...

By Donna Dickenson, The Hedgehog Review | 03.12.2014

Half of the population refuses to accept transfusions from public blood banks, trusting blood taken only from a family member...

By Durgesh Nandan Jha, The Times of India | 03.12.2014
NEW DELHI: Bollywood film 'Vicky Donor' may have popularized sperm donation, but did you know that donation of eggs is...
By Eesha Pandit, RH Reality Check | 03.12.2014
On March 5, the South Dakota house passed a bill that would ban abortions based on the sex of the...