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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 Maria Cheng, Associated Press | 08.22.2013
LONDON (AP) — Since the first test-tube baby was born more than three decades ago, in vitro fertilization has evolved...
By Rose Eveleth, Smithsonian | 08.22.2013

Many non-racist people like to call themselves “color blind,” as in “blind to the color of someone’s skin.” But what...

By Editorial, Nature | 08.21.2013
Full disclosure of the potential risks to people who volunteer to be test subjects for biomedical research has been a...
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 08.21.2013
Since last October, molecular biologist Katsuhiko Hayashi has received around a dozen e-mails from couples, most of them middle-aged, who...
By Robert Nussbaum, Technology Review | 08.21.2013
In June the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that patents on genes were invalid. Yet corporate intellectual-property claims can still harm...
By Jesse Larner, Huffington Post | 08.21.2013
I had really hoped never to hear anything more from Jason Richwine. It does sometimes happen that a public figure...
By Katherine Bindley, Huffington Post | 08.20.2013
Devan Weathers was pulling into her office parking lot from a lunch break when she got the phone call from...
By Lynne Taylor, PharmaTimes | 08.19.2013
The development of genomics for public health is being prioritised mainly by low- and middle-income nations, with richer countries not...