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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 Colin Halverson, Somatosphere | 01.07.2013
Anne Pollock’s new book, Medicating Race, is a meditation on the history and present state of racialized (specifically African...
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science Insider | 01.07.2013
The Supreme Court today rejected a request to ban U.S.-funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). The decision brings...
By Claudia Hennen, DW | 01.07.2013
It is not just a problem confined to China and India: more female fetuses are being aborted in Europe than...
By Andrew Vorzimer, The Spin Doctor | 01.04.2013

We have chronicled on this blog the perilous nature of proceeding with a surrogate arrangement in India. From international couples...

By Erika Christakis, Time | 01.04.2013
The horrific gang rape and murder of a 23-year old medical student in New Delhi may seem unrelated to fundamental...
By John Vidal, The Guardian | 01.04.2013
Britain wants GM food to be grown commercially. After years of encouraging developing countries in Africa and elsewhere to grow...
By Patrick Lin, The Atlantic | 01.04.2013
Science fiction, or actual U.S. military project? Half a world away from the battlefield, a soldier controls his avatar-robot that...
By Mira Kamdar, The Atlantic | 01.04.2013
My first sense as a young girl of sexual menace came from my Indian grandfather. He never sexually threatened or...