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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 Telegraph Reporters, The Telegraph | 07.13.2012

Due to the falling cost of DNA testing Britain is on the cusp of a new era of eugenics, according...

By Kounteya Sinha, The Times of India | 07.13.2012

NEW DELHI: India is all set to weed out and check the ever mushrooming clinics involved in renting a womb...

By Cassie Murdoch, Slate | 07.13.2012
People take out loans to buy a car or a house or to send a child (or themselves) to college...
By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 07.13.2012
Genetic testing raises some vexing ethical questions, like whether it will cause unnecessary anxiety or lead to more medical procedures...
By Mayura Janwalkar, The Indian Express | 07.12.2012
Not much is known about Sushma Pandey’s death, except that she was 17 years old, died suddenly and had visited...
By Amarnath Tewary, The New York Times | 07.12.2012
India’s caste system, in which people are born into a certain group, is now asserting itself even before birth as...
By Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill, The New Atlantis | 07.12.2012

In the United States, there is a vast market for sperm and eggs to enable infertile couples, single women, and...

By Amarnath Tewary, The New York Times | 07.12.2012
India’s caste system, in which people are born into a certain group, is now asserting itself even before birth as...