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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 Dan Kedmey, Time | 08.27.2013
Kumarasamy Thangaraj traveled 840 miles (1,350 km) off of the eastern coast of India by plane, then ship, then six...
By Donald Zuhn, Patent Docs | 08.27.2013
Last week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ACLU of Utah Foundation, Inc., Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), Association for Molecular...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 08.27.2013
The first humans left Africa some 200,000 years ago, dispersing to populate the rest of the world. But this was...
By Lea Winerman, Washington Post | 08.26.2013
Midway through her pregnancy four years ago, Denise Bratina got some scary news. Doctors told Bratina, then 37, that amniocentesis...
By Erika Check Hayden, Nature | 08.26.2013
US behavioural researchers have been handed a dubious distinction — they are more likely than their colleagues in other parts...
By Dr. Barry Starr, KQED | 08.26.2013

For the right person, an online genetic test can be both fun and useful. But for someone else, it might...

By Kimberly Johnson, Aljazeera America | 08.23.2013

Willis Lynch clearly remembers the day, 66 years ago, when his bloodline was stopped.

Lynch was only 14 years old...

By Nathaniel Comfort, Scientific American | 08.23.2013
Is eugenics a historical evil poised for a comeback? Or is it a noble but oft-abused concept, finally being done...