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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 Miriam Zoll, <i>Biopolitical Times</i> guest contributor | 03.12.2014

Data about the risks involved in high-tech assisted reproduction have until recently been scarce. The industry naturally touts success rates...

By Kerry Grens, The Scientist | 03.11.2014
Myriad Genetics, a Utah-based genetic diagnostics firm, has tried to get the courts to stop its competitors from selling kits...
By Nancy Shute, NPR | 03.11.2014
For more than a decade scientists have been saying that a genomic revolution will transform medicine, making it possible to...
By W. Patrick McCray, The Chronicle of Higher Education | 03.10.2014
In July 1969—less than two weeks after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin cavorted on the moon—The New York Review...
By Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times | 03.10.2014
TOKYO — One of the authors of a study that was claimed to have discovered a simple way to make...
By Marcy Darnovsky; Jessica Cussins, Medical Laboratory Observer | 03.10.2014

Direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing gained notoriety in the autumn of 2008. That was when two prestigious publications, The New Yorker...

By Elizabeth M. Meade, The Morning Call | 03.10.2014
A recent New York Times article (Feb. 25) on a new fertility procedure that involves using the genetic material of...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 03.10.2014
It was a genuine “where's the beef” session for California's nearly 10-year-old, $3 billion state stem cell agency.

A member...