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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 Robin Romm, The Atlantic | 11.10.2011
Being admitted to California Cryobank as a sperm donor is a bit like getting into Harvard. The bank accepts fewer...
By M.B. Reilly, Eurasia Review | 11.10.2011

Eugenics – the science of improving the human population via selective breeding or reproduction – is not a concept confined...

By Claire Bates, Daily Mail (UK) | 11.10.2011
The number of women having multiple births due to IVF has risen dramatically in a decade, figures show.

There were...
By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 11.09.2011

Since at least the mid-1990s, the popular press in the developed world has been spreading the word that women’s ability...

By Nic Fleming, The Guardian | 11.08.2011
A test that rapidly identifies which genetic mutations have caused a cancer could pave the way for personalised treatments to...
By Nic Fleming, The Guardian | 11.08.2011
A test that rapidly identifies which genetic mutations have caused a cancer could pave the way for personalised treatments to...
By Eviatar Zerubavel, Salon | 11.07.2011

This article is an edited excerpt from the new book "Ancestors & Relatives," from Oxford University Press.

Why...
By Eviatar Zerubavel, Salon | 11.07.2011

This article is an edited excerpt from the new book "Ancestors & Relatives," from Oxford University Press.

Why...