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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 Mandy Van Deven, Salon | 09.25.2011

Since the economic downturn, a growing number of Americans have begun making money off their bodies. Since the recession began...
By Holly Finn, Wall Street Journal | 09.24.2011

Get out the Screwpull! I've found another reason that red wine is good for you. A few months back, I...
By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 09.23.2011
Their key role in the arcane world of surrogate motherhood has received relatively little scientific examination, but it turns out...
By Helen Branswell, The Canadian Press | 09.22.2011
A discussion about whether women who donate eggs for infertility procedures are adequately looked after in the process descended into...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 09.21.2011
A trans-Atlantic dispute has opened up between two camps of researchers pursuing a gene that could lead to drugs that...
By Liz Ford, The Guardian (UK) | 09.19.2011
Creating better opportunities for women and girls makes good economic sense and increases development prospects, according to the World Bank's...
By Sharon Kirkey, Postmedia News, Montreal Gazette | 09.19.2011
The era of designer babies may be closer than most people think, one of Canada’s leading figures in reproductive medicine...
By Jennifer Ludden, NPR | 09.17.2011
Women inseminated with a donor's sperm used to be advised to tell no one. Go home, doctors said, make love...