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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 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...

By Soraya Chemaly, RH Reality Check | 02.23.2012

What happens when women, like men, can be parents without bearing children?  Does one form of gestation become a status...

By Alex Philippidis, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 02.23.2012

The U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is grappling with many of the ethical issues arising from...

By Soraya Chemaly, RH Reality Check | 02.23.2012

What happens when women, like men, can be parents without bearing children?  Does one form of gestation become a status...

By Alex Philippidis, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 02.23.2012

The U.S. Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues is grappling with many of the ethical issues arising from...

By Louise Hall, The Sydney Morning Herald | 02.21.2012
Companies do not have the right to a patent over human gene sequences and genetic mutations because such biological material...
By Louise Hall, The Sydney Morning Herald | 02.21.2012
Companies do not have the right to a patent over human gene sequences and genetic mutations because such biological material...