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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 Kerry Grens, The Scientist | 02.06.2014
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week (February 4) that culturing a patient’s stem cells for therapeutic use...
By Patricia J. Williams, The Nation | 02.05.2014
In late January, Kansas State Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook introduced a bill that would have criminalized the use of surrogate contracts...
By Donna Dickenson, Project Syndicate | 02.05.2014
LONDON – “Your genetic information should be controlled by you,” declares an advertisement for the American direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic-testing firm...
By Helen Thomson, New Scientist | 02.05.2014
Talk about speedy work. Hot on the heels of the news that simply dipping adult mouse cells in acid could...
By Martin LaMonica, MIT Technology Review | 02.05.2014
Biotech company LS9 launched in 2005 with great ambitions: founded by premier scientists and top-flight venture capitalists, it planned to...
By Patricia J. Williams, The Nation | 02.05.2014

In late January, Kansas State Senator Mary Pilcher-Cook introduced a bill that would have criminalized the use of surrogate contracts...

By Sophia Seawell, Bluestockings Magazine | 02.04.2014
Dorothy Roberts is a scholar, professor, author and social justice advocate, and currently the 14th Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor at...
By Sandhya Somashekhar, The Washington Post | 02.03.2014
Patients may obtain their test results directly from the laboratory that produced them, without having to go through their doctors...