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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 Mark Metherell, Sydney Morning Herald | 10.27.2011

Weight loss programs based on genetic tests operating out of pharmacies at a $1600 cost to patients have become the...

By Mark Metherell, Sydney Morning Herald | 10.27.2011

Weight loss programs based on genetic tests operating out of pharmacies at a $1600 cost to patients have become the...

By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN | 10.27.2011
Imagine going in for a cancer screening, and the technician turns to you and says, "We're finished, but if I...
By Elizabeth Cohen, CNN | 10.27.2011
Imagine going in for a cancer screening, and the technician turns to you and says, "We're finished, but if I...
By Corey Rose, 9 News Colorodo | 10.25.2011
A few years ago, Windsor resident Carrie Mathews decided to become a surrogate mother.

She has four children of her...
By Corey Rose, 9 News Colorodo | 10.25.2011
A few years ago, Windsor resident Carrie Mathews decided to become a surrogate mother.

She has four children of her...
By Fresh Air, NPR | 10.24.2011

In 1980, the Supreme Court ruled that living, human-made microorganisms could be patented by their developers. The ruling opened the...

By Jennifer Gollan, New York Times | 10.22.2011

Synthetic biology - which includes the development of fuels, organ tissue and tumor-destroying bacteria - became a focus of government...

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