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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 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 Linda Carroll, Today online | 07.12.2012
Jill and Tom Clinton knew they wanted to have kids after they got married in 2006 – and they weren’t...
By Rebecca Smith, Telegraph | 07.12.2012

The operation could offer hope of a normal family for 14,000 women in Britain who are born without a womb...

By Willam Rashbaum and Joesph Goldstein, The New York Times | 07.11.2012

A link between DNA from the unsolved killing of Sarah Fox, a Juilliard student, in 2004 and DNA taken from...

By Simon Leese, PHG Foundation | 07.09.2012
A new report makes recommendations for policy makers on the regulation of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing in the European Union...
By Simon Leese, PHG Foundation | 07.09.2012
A new report makes recommendations for policy makers on the regulation of direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing in the European Union...
By Rasmus Kragh Jakobsen, Science Nordic | 07.08.2012

The ambitious Faroese FarGen project has set out to sequence the Faroese genome.

The project will be the first one...

By Steve Mills, Chicago Tribune | 07.06.2012

When Cook County prosecutors brought Cleveland Barrett to trial earlier this year for the predatory criminal sexual assault of a...