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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...

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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By NPR Staff, National Public Radio | 02.27.2012

Advances in genetic testing have improved the prediction, diagnosis and treatment of disease. But having increased information about your genetic...

By NPR Staff, National Public Radio | 02.27.2012

Advances in genetic testing have improved the prediction, diagnosis and treatment of disease. But having increased information about your genetic...

By Wang Hairong, Bejing Review | 02.27.2012

With its soft pink background and the picture of a happy, healthy baby, at first sight, Ymdaiyun.com looks no different...

By Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune | 02.27.2012

By the time Camilla Black Grondahl became pregnant with her second child in 2010, she had already watched two older...

By Wang Hairong, Bejing Review | 02.27.2012

With its soft pink background and the picture of a happy, healthy baby, at first sight, Ymdaiyun.com looks no different...

By Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune | 02.27.2012

By the time Camilla Black Grondahl became pregnant with her second child in 2010, she had already watched two older...

By Carol J. Williams, Los Angeles Times | 02.24.2012

Law enforcement officers may take a DNA sample from anyone arrested on a felony charge without running afoul of the...

By Jessica Silver-Greenberg, Wall Street Journal | 02.24.2012

Julie Barth's prayers were answered when a doctor in Crystal Lake, Ill., told her in vitro fertilization might get her...