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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 Carl Elliott, Slate | 02.17.2012

The stem-cell tourism industry is not exactly renowned for ethical probity, much less scientific rigor. Given its reputation for peddling...

By Carl Elliott, Slate | 02.17.2012

The stem-cell tourism industry is not exactly renowned for ethical probity, much less scientific rigor. Given its reputation for peddling...

By AP, Associated Press | 02.15.2012

ALBANY — New York’s chief judge urged lawmakers Tuesday to require DNA testing for every felony and criminal misdemeanor conviction...

By Gordon Hoekstra, Vancouver Sun | 02.15.2012
While adoptive children have the right to information about their birth parents and children of sperm donors have no rights...
By Gordon Hoekstra, Vancouver Sun | 02.15.2012
While adoptive children have the right to information about their birth parents and children of sperm donors have no rights...
By Marianne Brown, The Guardian [UK] | 02.14.2012
When Hai overheard her mother-in-law telling her husband to have an extramarital affair so he could have a son, she...
By Marianne Brown, The Guardian [UK] | 02.14.2012
When Hai overheard her mother-in-law telling her husband to have an extramarital affair so he could have a son, she...
By Jonathan Freedland, The Telegraph [UK] | 02.12.2012
At first glance, it is an utterly benign and heart-warming story, a tale of child-rescue and salvation, of friendship across...