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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 Ursula Gauthier, Worldcrunch | 01.22.2014
BEIJING — When he was 17, Zhao Bowen was a bored student who made an audacious decision. In a country...
By Peter Moore, YouGov | 01.21.2014

In this YouGov/Huffington Post poll, the questions are:

Which comes closest to your opinion about scientific research on human, plant...

By Editorial, Nature | 01.21.2014

An article published on Nature’s website last week has created quite a buzz in South Korea. It details efforts...

By Craig Klugman, Bioethics.net | 01.21.2014
In the 1997 film GATTACA, a couple anxious to have a child sit down with their doctor. He shows them...
By Sean Poulter, Daily Mail (UK) | 01.20.2014
  • 38 British websites now offer home testing kits - which can cost up to £300
  • Paternity and genetic ancestry tests...
By Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian | 01.19.2014

Drug and insurance companies will from later this year be able to buy information on patients – including mental health...

By Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian | 01.19.2014

Drug and insurance companies will from later this year be able to buy information on patients – including mental health...

By Francie Latour, Boston Globe | 01.19.2014
IN MARTIN LUTHER King Jr.’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech, he yearned for a time when Americans would “not...