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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 Jason Mark, Earth Island Journal | 01.11.2013
If you want to get your name splattered all over the web, there’s nothing like recanting your once strongly held...
By Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times | 01.10.2013
The New York City medical examiner’s office is undertaking an unusual review of more than 800 rape cases in which...
By Medical Express, Medical Express | 01.10.2013

The Stockholm administrative court of appeal recently ruled that the practice of forced sterilisations, which dated back to a 1972...

By Andrea Peterson, Science Progress | 01.09.2013
When it comes to electronic health records, “the switch to cloud is inevitable.” That’s according to Joy Pritts, chief privacy...
By Monya Baker, Nature | 01.09.2013
A paper published in Nature today could dispel a cloud over the hopes of turning a patient’s own cells into...
By Editorial, Nature | 01.09.2013

Connecticut’s state medical examiner has requested a full genetic analysis of mass killer Adam Lanza, who shot 20 children, 6...

By Marcia Frellick, American Medical News | 01.08.2013
An Institute of Medicine review of California’s prominent center for stem cell research found organizational flaws and called for sweeping...
By Ujjwala Nayudu, The Indian Express | 01.08.2013
The uncovering of what appears to be baby trading has blurred the line between such rackets and surrogacy, amid signs...