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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 Tom Chivers, The Telegraph | 09.06.2013
Of all the culture-war issues, the endless battles over gay marriage and immigration and so on that divide liberal Left...
By Fergus Walsh, BBC News | 09.05.2013
It is 18 months since Carol Gedda suffered a massive heart attack. It left her with just 20% of her...
By Erika Check, Nature | 09.04.2013
Hundreds of US babies will be pioneers in genomic medicine through a US$25-million programme  to sequence their genomes soon after...
By John Bingham, and Claire Newell, The Telegraph | 09.04.2013
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) was accused of failing to uphold the law after it ruled that it would not...
By Diane Tober and Francine Coeytaux, RH Reality Check | 09.04.2013

On August 13, California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed AB 926, a bill sponsored by the American Society for Reproductive...

By Nancy Scheper-Hughes, The Conversation | 09.03.2013
Organ trafficking and illicit transplant surgeries have infiltrated global medical practice. But despite the evidence of widespread criminal networks and...
By Marcy Darnovsky and Susan Berke Fogel, Huffington Post | 09.03.2013

Last month, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed a bill that would have allowed researchers to pay women for having their...

By David Dobbs, Pacific Standard | 09.03.2013
A few years ago, Gene Robinson, of Urbana, Illinois, asked some associates in southern Mexico to help him kidnap...