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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 Melanie Smallman and Simon Lock, The Guardian | 07.08.2013
In last week's blog piece "The public don't want to be involved in science policy" Hannah Baker used...
By Corey G. Johnson, Center for Investigative Reporting | 07.07.2013
Doctors under contract with the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sterilized nearly 150 female inmates from 2006 to 2010...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 07.07.2013
The California stem cell agency is moving to remove an absolute ban on use of stem cell lines derived from...
By Fiona MacDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald | 07.06.2013
If things had gone a bit differently, neurocriminologist Adrian Raine could easily have been a murderer, or a rapist –...
By Genevra Pittman, Reuters | 07.04.2013
Researchers looked at a database maintained by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (SART) and found the proportion of cycles...
By Lloyd Lewis and Julie Reiskin, Denver Post | 07.04.2013

Eugenics was a disturbing sociopolitical movement in the early 20th century that promoted reproduction of the "fittest" and limited reproduction...

By Randeep Ramesh, The Guardian | 07.04.2013
The health secretary is launching a new government organisation to oversee the creation of a genomic revolution in healthcare that...
By Ryann Summers, Our Bodies Our Blog | 07.03.2013
Recently, a former co-worker and his romantic partner sent me a text message that left me reeling.

It essentially read:...