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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 BJOG, BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology | 02.06.2013

The number of congenital anomalies, or birth defects, arising from multiple births has almost doubled since the 1980s, suggests a...

By Advocates for Informed Choice, Advocates for Informed Choice | 02.06.2013

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The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture (SRT) has just issued a statement calling for an end to...

By Bill Sizemore, The Virginian-Pilot | 02.05.2013
A bipartisan proposal to compensate Virginians who were involuntarily sterilized during the eugenics era is going nowhere, sidelined by its...
By Larry Greenemeier, Scientific American | 02.04.2013
Every week, it seems, there’s a new breakthrough in 3-D printing that promises us the ability to (eventually) fabricate some...
By Alex Philippidis, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 02.04.2013

Yaniv Erlich, Ph.D., and his research team at the Whitehead Institute hoped to start a conversation when they published their...

By David Savage, Los Angeles Times | 02.02.2013
WASHINGTON — On a cold February night three years ago, police in suburban Arlington, Va., received a frantic call. A...
By Angus Reid Global, Angus Reid Global | 01.31.2013

Americans More Morally Conservative Than Canadians and Britons

Respondents in Britain are less likely to find medical testing on animals...

By Opinion staff, Daily News | 01.31.2013
San Bernardino County District Attorney Michael A. Ramos goes too far - too deep into Orwellian territory -- in proposing...