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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 Henry Gee, The Guardian | 09.19.2013
You'd think from the way that science tends to be reported in the popular prints, as they used to be...
By Elizabeth E. Joh, Genomics Law Report | 09.19.2013
With its decision in Maryland v. King [pdf], the Supreme Court finally stepped into the debate about the use of...
By Claire Cain Miller and Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 09.18.2013
Silicon Valley has an obsession with immortality, and not just as science fiction. Many people here say they believe that...
By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 09.17.2013
A US National Institutes of Health (NIH) committee approved the first uses of genomic data from the HeLa cell line...
By Rady Ananda, Activist Post | 09.16.2013
Next month, the US Food and Drug Administration will hold a two-day public meeting to discuss genetic modification within the...
By Mallika Dutt, RH Reality Check | 09.16.2013
On Tuesday last week, I testified at a hearing of the Congressional Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights...
By Louisa Ghevaert, BioNews | 09.16.2013
Surrogacy law and policy differs considerably between countries. Some jurisdictions ban or restrict the practice of surrogacy, whilst others have...
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 09.16.2013
From biology class to “C.S.I.,” we are told again and again that our genome is at the heart of our...