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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 Associated Press, NPR | 01.31.2013
PARIS (AP) — The French are all for sex and all for family — so long as you're having sex...
By David Cyranoski, Nature | 01.30.2013
US citizens who had pinned their hopes on a company being able to offer stem-cell treatments close to home will...
By Emily Swanson, Huffington Post | 01.30.2013
Recently, reports spread like wildfire that Harvard geneticist George Church was seeking an "adventurous female human" to be a surrogate...
By CBS4, CBS Denver | 01.30.2013

DENVER (CBS4) – There’s a proposal to collect DNA from everyone who commits a crime in Colorado, no matter how...

By Hilary Rose, The Guardian | 01.30.2013

Hilary Rose, co-author of Genes, Cells and Brains, argues that we should treat the medical claims made for genetic...

By Peter Ubel, Forbes | 01.28.2013
The first test tube baby was born July 25th, 1978 in the north of England.  Louise Brown was called the...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 01.28.2013
In statehouses around the country, some of the nation’s biggest biotechnology companies are lobbying intensively to limit generic competition to...
By The Hindu, The Hindu | 01.27.2013

Expansion and proliferation of assisted reproductive technologies (ART) has been facilitated by economic globalisation wherein reproductive tissues like sperm, ova...