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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 Pritha Chatterjee, The Indian Express | 02.09.2014
An initial post-mortem report of the 23-year-old Yuma Sherpa, who died after an egg donation procedure at an IVF clinic...
By Tanya Selvaratnam, CNN | 02.08.2014
Editor's note: Tanya Selvaratnam is a writer, an actor, a producer, and an activist. As an activist, she has worked...
By Anne Eisenberg, The New York Times | 02.08.2014
What if laboratories could run comprehensive DNA tests on infants at birth, spotting important variations in their genomes that might...
By The Economist, The Economist | 02.08.2014

IT SOUNDS like science fiction, and for years it seemed as though it was just that: fiction. But the idea...

By Tom Harvey, The Salt Lake Tribune | 02.07.2014
Salt Lake City-based Myriad Genetics has settled one of a number of lawsuits over gene-related patents it filed against competitors...
By Kerry Grens, The Scientist | 02.06.2014
Many of the stem cell lines used by academics and registered with the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) would...
By Ron Synovitz and Zamira Eshanova, The Atlantic | 02.06.2014
The idea of using genetic testing to spot future world-class athletes has been bandied about for years. Now, Uzbekistan hopes...
By Tony Dokoupil, NBC News | 02.06.2014
Days before she ended her pregnancy, Joselin Linder was thrilled to imagine herself as a parent. She was 37, newly-married...