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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 Medical Xpress, Medical Xpress | 11.07.2013

In an era of commercialized medicine, direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing has been on a steady rise. Consumers can purchase a...

By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 11.07.2013
In 2008, a group of prominent scientists and entrepreneurs announced, after careful consideration, that they would make their genome sequences...
By Miriam Zoll, Lilith | 11.07.2013
At age 50, I am an official member of Generation I.V.F., having grown up after the Pill and Baby Boomer...
By Judith Levine, Seven Days | 11.06.2013

Unemployed? Sent out 500 résumés? Earned another degree? Done everything humanly possible to get a job?

Well, there’s your problem...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 11.06.2013
Some of the biggest discoveries in science often hide away in plain sight for many years before their importance is...
By Michaeleen Doucleff, NPR | 11.06.2013
Children who were conceived with in vitro fertilization have the same overall chance of developing childhood cancers as those conceived...
By Susan Young, MIT Technology Review | 11.05.2013
Fertility doctors in Beijing have begun testing a new method for genome analysis of human eggs before using them for...
By Jennifer Bleyer, Psychology Today | 11.04.2013
He's a 45-year-old divorced father of three, but Andrew lives for the text message he'll get from a woman announcing...