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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, Reporting on Health | 03.04.2014

A new study published in the Journal of Perinatology [1] online has found that from 2009-2011 in California, hospital delivery...

By Donna L. Dickenson, The New Bioethics, Vol. 19, No. 1 | 03.04.2014

After the development of induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs) in 2007, the pressure to commercialize women’s eggs for stem cell...

By Jonathan Kahn, HealthLawProf Blog | 03.03.2014

Genomic research is at an impasse.  In the decade since the completion of the first draft of the human genome...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 03.03.2014
In the late 1980s, scientists at Osaka University in Japan noticed unusual repeated DNA sequences next to a gene they...
By Adrienne Vogt, The Daily Beast | 03.03.2014
They’ve been called “baby factories,” conjuring up images of poor, illiterate women packed into bunks and forced by...
By Shu-Ching Jean Chen, Forbes | 03.03.2014
Genetic testing has grown to be a business big enough in China to warrant the government’s intervention. Early in February...
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 03.02.2014
A new study based on genetic testing of 150,000 people has found a rare mutation that protects even fat people...
By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 03.01.2014
New studies are suggesting that doctors need to be more cautious when they release genetic information to patients.

A recent...