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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 Jason Mark, Earth Island Journal, Autumn 2013 | 09.03.2013
Few creatures have ever existed that can match the sheer weirdness of Australia’s gastric brooding frog. As the name suggests...
By Amy Corderoy, The Age | 09.02.2013
An infertile Australian woman is pregnant after growing new eggs in ovarian tissue transplanted into her abdomen in a world...
By Robert Klitzman, Huffington Post | 09.02.2013
"I don't know what information I want," a woman whose whole genome was being mapped recently told me. Her son...
By Michele Goodwin and Judy Norsigian, WeNews | 09.01.2013
(WOMENSENEWS)-- On Sept. 5, 2012, a 53-year-old grandmother from Chicago, Cindy Reutzel, birthed her daughter's baby, and said she would...
By Bob Ortega, The Republic | 08.31.2013
In early June, an Indian medical researcher traveled to Chicago to report seemingly astounding results from a decadelong study of...
By Elizabeth Landau, CNN | 08.29.2013
(CNN) -- We've seen beating heart tissue, windpipes and bladders all grown from stem cells. Now researchers have taken another...
By Sam Jewler, CitizenVox | 08.28.2013
I’ve been in tense police-protester situations before, but generally in more of a civil disobedience context. It was the last...
By Meredith Wadman, Nature | 08.28.2013
Was it enough for doctors to tell the parents of extremely premature infants that there was “no additional risk” to...