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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 Rob Stein, NPR | 11.04.2013
After spending months working on a series of stories about the trillions of friendly microbes that live in and on...
By Michael White, Pacific Standard | 11.04.2013
It's 2039, and the Jacksonville Jaguars are fresh off their win in Super Bowl LXXIII, their third straight championship victory...
By Coralie Colmez & Leila Schneps, Nautilus | 11.03.2013
Genetic material is the smoking gun of the modern crime scene. Juries in criminal trials are often encouraged to think...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 11.03.2013
The California stem cell agency is nearing the end of its “normal” life span, and the topic of its future...
By Cecilia Capuzzi Simon, The New York Times | 11.01.2013
THE temporarily able-bodied, or TABs. That’s what disability activists call those who are not physically or mentally impaired. And they...
By Franki Webb, IPPro Life Sciences | 10.31.2013
Last month, 23andMe caused controversy when it patented technology that could allow parents to effectively design their own babies.

23andMe...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 10.31.2013
A federal judge has invalidated the central patent underlying a noninvasive method of detecting Down syndrome in fetuses without the...
By IBN, IBN Live | 10.30.2013

Foreign nationals intending to visit India for commissioning surrogacy will not be allowed to come on a tourist visa from...