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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 Richard Orange, Telegraph [UK] | 09.16.2011
Ole Schou, Cryos's director, said that there had been a surge in donations in recent years, allowing the facility to...
By Elizabeth Reis, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 09.15.2011

My college-age daughter can earn $50,000-$100,000 just for being smart, beautiful, tall, and a Harvard student.  Yes, going to Harvard...

By Ian Sample, Guardian | 09.14.2011
Life forms have been created that carry strands of genetic material designed and built from scratch in the lab, paving...
By Laura Donnelly, Telegraph [UK] | 09.11.2011
Medical staff should be instructed to "withhold information about the sex of the foetus" according to a draft resolution passed...
By Andy Coghlan, New Scientist | 09.11.2011
Three cats genetically modified to resist feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) have opened up new avenues for AIDS research.

The research...
By David Malakoff, Science | 09.09.2011

The first major overhaul of the U.S. patent system in nearly 60 years is about to become law. The U.S...
By Jacqueline Mroz, New York Times | 09.05.2011
Cynthia Daily and her partner used a sperm donor to conceive a baby seven years ago, and they hoped that...
By Susan Donaldson James, ABC News | 08.30.2011
A commission set up last year by President Barack Obama has revealed that 83 Guatemalans died in U.S. government research...