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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 The Local, The Local [Germany] | 04.28.2011

The court in Berlin ruled that the German embassy in India was within its rights to refuse a passport to...

By Alice Dreger, Bioethics Forum | 04.27.2011

What tools does a university administration have at its disposal to shut up critics on its own faculty? The University...

By BBC, BBC News | 04.24.2011

It is described as one of the fastest growing areas of medical "tourism" although that is a word none of...

By Bangkok Post, Bangkok Post [Thailand] | 04.22.2011

Recent headlines about a company offering surrogacy services in exchange for money have brought the issue of assisted reproductive technologies...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Science Progress | 04.22.2011

A new approach to testing the genes of early-stage fetuses could radically alter the experience of pregnancy and parenting. And...

By Jonathan Kahn, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 04.20.2011

A recent issue of Nature reviewed the accomplishments of the Human Genome Project 10 years after the grand announcement of...

By Pallab Ghosh, BBC News | 04.19.2011

Mitochondrial transfer aims to replace a faulty part of a mother's egg with healthy material from a donor.

This means...
By Osagie K. Obasogie, Slate | 04.18.2011

On Jan. 31, the departments of Agriculture and Health and Human Services released the newest version of the official Dietary...