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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 Jessica Cussins, The Huffington Post | 10.24.2013

I have my parents, and biotechnology, to thank for bringing me into this world; I was an IVF baby...

By Kerri Smith, Nature | 10.23.2013
Jack Gallant perches on the edge of a swivel chair in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley, fixated...
By Erik Eckholm, The New York Times | 10.23.2013

JACKSON, Wis. — Alicia Beltran cried with fear and disbelief when county sheriffs surrounded her home on July 18 and...

By Nicolle Strand, The Blog of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues | 10.23.2013
Last month, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a draft version of its new genomic data sharing policy...
By Bernadette Tansey, Xconomy | 10.22.2013
UC Davis professor Paul Knoepfler’s new book about stem cells may never break into the New York Times best-seller ranks...
By Rachel Adams, The Huffington Post | 10.21.2013
October is National Down Syndrome Awareness Month, a time to recognize the accomplishments of people with Down syndrome and advocate...
By Carl Zimmer, Slate | 10.21.2013
In June 2007, James Watson, a co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, went to Houston to pick up his genome...
By Kirsty Needham, The Sydney Morning Herald | 10.20.2013
Children of anonymous sperm donors should be allowed access to genetic information such as health history, height and eye colour...