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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 Brent Kendall, Wall Street Journal | 03.26.2012
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ordered an appeals court to take a new look at a lawsuit...
By Terry Baynes, Thomason Reuters News & Insights | 03.21.2012
The Mayo Clinic and its lawyers at Mayer Brown weren't the only ones to welcome the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling...
By Jesse Holland, Business Week | 03.20.2012
The Supreme Court unanimously tossed out medical patent claims for Prometheus Laboratories on Tuesday for a test that could help...
By Michele Chabin, USA Today | 03.19.2012

JERUSALEM – Chicago native Ellie Lavi could not have been happier when she gave birth to beautiful twin girls overseas...

By Herbet L. White, Charlotte Post | 03.19.2012

More than 100 people have been verified as unwitting sterilization victims of North Carolina’s Eugenics program.

The N.C. Justice for...

By Alicia Chang, Washington Post | 03.18.2012
LOS ANGELES — The creation of California’s stem cell agency in 2004 was greeted by scientists and patients as a...
By Elizabeth Cohen and John Bonifield, CNN | 03.15.2012

(CNN) -- Sixty-seven years ago, 14-year-old Charlie Follett was living in California's Sonoma State Home. As he did most days...

By Leo Hickman, Guardian | 03.14.2012

Earlier this week, The Atlantic ran an eye-catching disturbing interview with a professor of philosophy and bioethics at New York...