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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 Malcolm Ritter, The Associated Press | 06.12.2011
This is the second story in a two-part series on fetal DNA testing and the ethical issues raised by it...
By Malcolm Ritter, San Francisco Chronicle | 06.11.2011

This is the first story in a two-part series on fetal DNA testing and the ethical issues raised by it...

By BBC, BBC News | 06.10.2011

His work led to the birth of Louise Brown, the first "test-tube baby" in July 1978. The government's "heart tsar"...

By Dita Faulkner, EmpowHER | 06.09.2011
Now this is a unique problem. In some areas, there are more boys being born than girls. For instance, as...
By Dita Faulkner, EmpowHER | 06.09.2011
Now this is a unique problem. In some areas, there are more boys being born than girls. For instance, as...
By Times of India, The Times of India | 06.08.2011

Under cultural pressure to have sons, some Indian immigrant women are using reproductive technologies and liberal abortion policies in the...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 06.07.2011
For a state agency that aims to define the term "visionary," the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine — the stem...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Ms. Magazine Blog | 06.06.2011

As best as demographers can figure, the world is short about 160 million girls and women–equivalent to the entire female...