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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 GEN , Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 04.10.2012

A majority of respondents to a recent GEN poll would like to see a moratorium on synthetic biotechnology products pending...

By Rebecca Smith, Telegraph | 04.08.2012

Bertold Wiesner and his wife Mary Barton founded a fertility clinic in London in the 1940s and helped women conceive...

By Steve Connor, The Independent | 04.07.2012
The first human egg cells that have been grown entirely in the laboratory from stem cells could be fertilised later...
By CBS This Morning, CBS This Morning | 04.05.2012

A new report in Time magazine reveals the U.S. is the world's top exporter of sperm.

But why? It's largely...

By Catherine Lacey, The Atlantic | 04.04.2012

A few years ago, a woman I've never met had my child, but that's not exactly true; she had our...

By Jane Hughes, BBC News | 04.04.2012
The UK fertility regulator is seeking to reduce the taboo around egg and sperm donation.

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology...
By Steven T. Jones, San Francisco Bay Guardian | 04.03.2012

When Richmond was selected as the site for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's huge second campus in January, city officials and...

By Gina Kolata, New York Times | 04.02.2012
If every aspect of a person’s DNA is known, would it be possible to predict the diseases in that person’s...