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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 Sharon Begley, Reuters | 01.10.2012

After years of predictions that the "$1,000 genome" - a read-out of a person's complete genetic information for about the...
By Sharon Begley, Reuters | 01.10.2012

After years of predictions that the "$1,000 genome" - a read-out of a person's complete genetic information for about the...
By Douglas Pet, Slate | 01.09.2012

The booming business in international surrogacy, whereby Westerners have begun hiring poor women in developing countries to carry their babies...

By Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes | 01.08.2012
Dr. Dan Ecklund claims he can treat dozens of diseases using stem cells. But there's a problem. Ecklund is a...
By Scott Pelley, 60 Minutes | 01.08.2012
Dr. Dan Ecklund claims he can treat dozens of diseases using stem cells. But there's a problem. Ecklund is a...
By Glenn Blain, New York Daily News | 01.08.2012
ALBANY — Even convicted fare beaters would have to give a DNA sample to cops under a plan being pushed...
By Glenn Blain, New York Daily News | 01.08.2012
ALBANY — Even convicted fare beaters would have to give a DNA sample to cops under a plan being pushed...
By Carolyn Abraham, The Globe and Mail | 01.07.2012
Humanity has long dreamed of perfection, striving to be faster, stronger and brighter, pushing nature to the limit. Four centuries...