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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 Marisa Peñaloza, WBUR | 12.17.2013
Thousands of children are conceived using sperm and egg donors every year, a group large enough to entice MTV to...
By Enola Aird, MomsRising | 12.17.2013
Lots of children have three parents.  A boy’s mother and father might divorce, and one remarries.  A girl might be...
By The Editorial Board, USA Today | 12.16.2013
Opening the door to genetic testing and its potential health benefits to anyone with $99 and the desire to spit...
By Karen Weintraub, The New York Times | 12.16.2013
Alana Saarinen sat at the piano, playing smoothly and with feeling. Behind her, plastic toys shared floor space with a...
By The Times editorial board, The Los Angeles Times | 12.16.2013
The Supreme Court erred grievously this year when it permitted Maryland police to collect DNA samples from people who had...
By John Gillott, BioNews | 12.16.2013
The House of Commons Education Committee is currently investigating 'Underachievement in education of white working class children'. At a session...
By Russell Brandom, The Verge | 12.13.2013
How does a mother’s weight-loss surgery affect her child’s risk of obesity? It’s a question scientists have been struggling with...
By Steve Connor, Independent | 12.13.2013
Genes play a bigger role in educational achievement than teachers, schools or home environment, and the reason we know this...