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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.

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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Dennis Thompson, US News | 12.23.2013
Nine of 10 women do not need and should not receive genetic testing to see if they are at risk...
By Sarah Elizabeth Richards, NBC News | 12.23.2013
Thinking about freezing your eggs to buy yourself a few more baby-making years? Not so fast, says the American College...
By Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR | 12.23.2013
For Matthew and Brianne Wojtesta, it all started about a week after the birth of their daughter Vera. Matthew was...
By Ed Yong, National Geographic | 12.23.2013
I’m really optimistic about the future for long, deep, rich science reporting. There are more places that are publishing it...
By Wendy Kramer, Medium | 12.23.2013
In 1988 the Office of Technology Assessment estimated that 30,000 children were born via donor insemination during the year 1986/87...
By Alana Cattapan, Impact Ethics | 12.21.2013
On December 10, 2013, the Montreal Gazette published a story describing an ongoing dispute between Dr. Seang Lin Tan and...
By Carl Zimmer, National Geographic | 12.20.2013
The title of my blog post is provocative, I know, but I’m actually just lifting it from the title of...
By Shereen Jegtvig, Reuters | 12.20.2013
(Reuters Health) - People who donated sperm and eggs before 1998 in one Australian state were able to remain anonymous...