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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 David Crary, Associated Press National Writer, ABC News | 12.06.2011

The practice of sex-selection abortion, usually targeting a female fetus due to parental preference for a son, has few defenders...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 12.06.2011
A new test might allow some women with the earliest phase of breast cancer to forgo the most aggressive treatment...
By Michael Marshall, New Scientist | 12.05.2011

How do you publish a novel arguing that the unfit, weak or mentally infirm should not be allowed to breed...
By Michael Marshall, New Scientist | 12.05.2011

How do you publish a novel arguing that the unfit, weak or mentally infirm should not be allowed to breed...
By Katie McLaughlin, CNN | 12.02.2011
"I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back," Larry...
By Katie McLaughlin, CNN | 12.02.2011
"I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back," Larry...
By Misha Angrist, PLOS Medicine/GenomeBoy | 12.02.2011

In 2009 I attended the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. The keynote speaker was...

By Misha Angrist, PLOS Medicine/GenomeBoy | 12.02.2011

In 2009 I attended the annual meeting of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. The keynote speaker was...