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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 Kounteya Sinha, The Times of India | 06.05.2011
The days of "sex-selection shops" in India are numbered.

The Union health ministry on Saturday asked Medical Council of India...
By Denise Grady, The New York Times | 06.03.2011
The event, on Thursday night at the World Science Festival in Manhattan, was a panel discussion called “Cancer’s Last Stand...
By Peter Foster, The Telegraph [UK] | 06.02.2011
The 17-year-old boy, identified only by his surname, "Zheng", confessed to his mother that he had sold the kidney after...
By Barry Stevens, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 06.02.2011
On May 19, 2011, a door opened that has long been closed in North America. The Supreme Court of British...
By Rong-Gong Lin II and Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times | 06.02.2011
The medical ethics controversy that erupted when Nadya Suleman gave birth to octuplets two years ago took a decisive turn...
By Rich Remsberg, NPR | 06.01.2011
The shadow selves of American history often don't leave much of a photographic record, but sometimes there are just a...
By Suthiwit Chayutworakan, Bangkok Post | 05.31.2011
Thailand repatriated five pregnant Vietnamese women and five babies yesterday after freeing them from a Taiwanese gang which forced them...
By Jennifer Ludden, NPR | 05.31.2011
This story is part of an occasional series, "Making Babies: 21st Century Families."

As more women postpone motherhood into...