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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 Rob Stein, The Washington Post | 05.18.2011
In an era of helicopter parents eager to exploit every competitive edge for their children, at least two companies have...
By Lewis Page, The Register | 05.18.2011
The Supreme Court has ruled that guidance on the running of the national DNA database – which states that all...
By Vincent Y. Chao and Shelley Huang, Taipei Times | 05.17.2011
Estimates that thousands of female fetuses are aborted each year in Taiwan have led to calls for health agencies to...
By Robin Yapp, The Telegraph (UK) | 05.16.2011
Roger Abdelmassih is on the run from police after being convicted of sexually assaulting or raping 39 female patients at...
By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 05.13.2011
In an unexpected setback to efforts to harness a promising new type of stem cell to treat diseases, researchers reported...
By Michael Smith, Bloomberg Markets Magazine | 05.11.2011
Luis Picado’s mother remembers the day her son thought he had won the lottery. He came home to their tin-roofed...
By Kate Kelland, Reuters | 05.11.2011
A study of more than 400,000 IVF cycles has found that doctors should aim to retrieve around 15 eggs from...
By Rebecca Martin, The Local | 05.10.2011
"We can’t recognise a DNA-test because the question isn’t really if the man is the boy’s biological father, but if...