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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 Fredrick Kunkle, The Washington Post | 12.08.2013
LYNCHBURG, Va. — Growing national attention to the 20th-century practice of forcibly sterilizing thousands of Americans has put new pressure...
By BBC, BBC | 12.06.2013

The chances of a woman having a baby following IVF go "very rapidly downhill" from the age of 37, according...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 12.06.2013
Bowing to the Food and Drug Administration, the genetic testing service 23andMe said Thursday that it would stop providing consumers...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.05.2013
The likely future of the $3 billion California stem cell agency was unveiled this week, and it envisions an enterprise...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 12.05.2013
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) should refocus its oversight of gene-transfer research, the US Institute of Medicine (IOM)...
By Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times | 12.05.2013
The crime lab technician mislabeled samples, using “the victim’s name instead of suspect’s name,” her evaluation said. Her supervisors disqualified...
By Nancy Shute, NPR | 12.04.2013
Drugs that help women become pregnant have replaced in vitro fertilization as the main culprit behind high-risk multiple births, according...
By Zaineb Mohammed, East Bay Express | 12.04.2013
If you could augment your body's abilities in any way imaginable, what would you do? When Oakland filmmaker Regan Brashear...