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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 Ellen Painter Dollar, The New York Times | 07.20.2012

“Don’t worry. She won’t break.”

This is a classic cliché of new parenthood. “Don’t worry,” nurses say to insecure new...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 07.20.2012

After more than two decades of dashed expectations, the field of gene therapy appears close to reaching a milestone: a...
By Matt Zapotosky, The Washington Post | 07.18.2012

The U.S. Supreme Court has put on hold — at least for a week — a ruling by Maryland’s highest...

By Sujeet Kumar, Reuters | 07.18.2012
(Reuters) - Doctors in Chhattisgarh performed hysterectomies on poor village women without a valid medical reason in order to claim...
By Daily News, Daily News | 07.17.2012

Twelve Indian doctors have been suspended for allegedly conducting prenatal sex tests, a practice banned to stop the abortion of...

By The Yomiuri Shimbun, The Daily Yomiuri | 07.17.2012
At least 90 Japanese couples have traveled to Thailand to receive preimplantation diagnosis for sex selection purposes this year, a...
By Jacqueline Mroz, The New York Times | 07.16.2012
Two days after Debra Demidon underwent in vitro fertilization, she gained more than 30 pounds in fluid and suddenly was...
By United Press International, United Press International | 07.14.2012

TOKYO, July 14 (UPI) -- A survey of Japanese fertility clinics found about 30 percent of information on sperm donors...