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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 Onche Odeh, Independent Online | 06.22.2011
The absence of a regulatory framework for fertility treatment in Nigeria has continually put a growing number of couples in...
By Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times | 06.21.2011

The Beverly Hills fertility doctor who helped Nadya Suleman give birth to octuplets is asking the Los Angeles County Superior...

By Patricia Cohen, New York Times | 06.19.2011

It was less than 20 years ago that the National Institutes of Health abruptly withdrew funds for a conference on...

By NPR, National Public Radio | 06.17.2011

Britain has dropped a policy of using DNA tests to identify the nationality of African refugees and asylum seekers after...

By Steve Jones, BBC News | 06.16.2011

Type the phrase "scientists find the gene for" into Google and 68,000 results appear. Most of the hits are about...

By Peter Delevett, Mercury News | 06.15.2011

Mountain View genomics startup 23andMe just hit a milestone: As of Wednesday, 100,000 people have uploaded their genetic code to...

By Kim So-hyun, The Korea Herald | 06.14.2011
The police on Tuesday sought arrest warrants for two people suspected of brokering illegal sales of human eggs and booked...
By Jonathan Kahn, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 06.14.2011

A review of recent patent applications to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) has uncovered a highly problematic...