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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 David W Freeman, CBS Health | 04.18.2011

(CBS) Is genetic testing of children a good idea? Parents seem to think so. New research shows that more than...

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 04.18.2011

Heather Spear and William Hanberg sit with their daughter EmmaRose in an examination room at UCLA. At 21/2, EmmaRose is...

By Jessica Pauline Ogilvie, Los Angeles Times | 04.18.2011

There are plenty of medical tests that consumers can give themselves at home — tests to finds out if they...

By Mark Magnier, Los Angeles Times | 04.18.2011

Reporting from Ahmedabad, India: It should have been Myleen and Jan Sjodin's greatest happiness. Their newborn was healthy, they were...

By Marimer Matos, Courthouse News Service | 04.14.2011
     Three groups conspired to fix prices for human egg donors and "reap anti-competitive profits for themselves," a donor says...
By Nilanjana S. Roy, The New York Times | 04.13.2011
The figures tell an old and cruel story: the systematic elimination of girls in India. In the 2001 census, the...
By Solomon Times , Solomon Times | 04.11.2011

The patent application was launched by US based lawyers on behalf of Taiwanese scientist, Dr Ko Ying-Chin.

According to the...

By Marcus Wohlsen, Salon | 04.09.2011
This article is excerpted from Marcus Wohlsen's new book, "Biopunk."

The most disruptive force on the planet resides in DNA...