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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 Bonnie Rochman, Time | 10.23.2012
When Anne Wojcicki’s son was a baby, she ran a swab across the inside of his cheek, collecting DNA to...
By Agata Nalecz, Reuters | 10.22.2012

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's Prime Minster Donald Tusk announced plans on Monday to finance in-vitro fertilization treatment for couples, setting...

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN | 10.22.2012
Other women's eggs have not been kind to Debbie Vernon.

When fertility doctors determined Vernon's own eggs were kaput, they...
By Bonnie Rochman, Time | 10.22.2012
Can you imagine wanting to know whether your newborn baby will fall victim to Alzheimer’s disease decades down the road...
By Timothy Caulfield, The Atlantic | 10.22.2012
One could argue that stem cell research is currently the most promising area of biomedical research. It is no surprise...
By Daniel Mason, Public Service Europe | 10.22.2012
The recent granting of three patents for genetically engineered chimpanzees to be used for pharmaceutical research has been branded as...
By Alexandra Sifferlin, Time | 10.22.2012
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is responsible for creating thousands of happy families, but the latest research highlights some of the...
By Stephanie M. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.20.2012

They never wanted to have a child, until they did. And then they couldn't.

For four years, this San Carlos...