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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 Mizuho Aoki, The Japan Times | 05.02.2013
The first egg bank in Japan is expected to register initial donors by midmonth to help infertile young married women...
By Rachel, Our Bodies Our Blog | 04.30.2013
Our Bodies Ourselves board member Miriam Zoll has a new book coming out on May 1, Cracked Open: Liberty, Fertility...
By Philip Ball, Scientific American | 04.28.2013
This week's diamond jubilee of the discovery of DNA's molecular structure rightly celebrates how Francis Crick, James Watson and their...
By TechEye, TechEye | 04.25.2013

Dr Helen Wallace, director of GeneWatch UK, warned at a MedConfidential event in London that beyond electronically storing...

By Adam Tanner, Forbes | 04.25.2013
A Harvard professor has re-identified the names of more than 40% of a sample of anonymous participants in a high-profile...
By Caroline Wright, Genomes Unzipped | 04.25.2013
By now, we’re probably all  familiar with Niels Bohr’s famous quote that “prediction is very difficult, especially about the...
By Ari Schulman, The American Conservative | 04.25.2013
One might think that if someone ever figured out how to create a mind—if the secret of human thought were...