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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 Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 11.25.2013
In a crackdown on genetic testing offered directly to consumers, the Food and Drug Administration is demanding that the Google-backed...
By Lukas Hartmann, ctrl+verlust | 11.25.2013
I signed up for 23andme in November 2010. I sent them my saliva and received a web login to my...
By J. P. Harpignies, Letter to the New York Times | 11.24.2013
To the Editor:

Adam Kirsch and Jennifer Szalai made some interesting points about Aldous Huxley in their Bookends essays (Nov...
By Uptin Saiidi, New York Post | 11.23.2013
The hottest role these days for a young actress? Egg donor.

Egg “agents” are aggressively recruiting city models and actresses...
By admin The Guardian | 11.23.2013

A U.S. company with a Prince Edward Island research facility is facing a complaint in Panama alleging that it is...

By Margalit Fox, The New York Times | 11.23.2013
Adrienne Asch, an internationally known bioethicist who opposed the use of prenatal testing and abortion to select children free of...
By Eliana Dockterman, Time | 11.22.2013
Those of you busy buying tickets to Thor or The Hunger Games,  may have missed a movie premiering this...
By Bob Holmes, New Scientist | 11.21.2013
Being a male is easier than it looks. The defining genetic feature of maleness, the Y chromosome, contains only two...