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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 Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 03.30.2011

Is each of us morally obligated to volunteer as a subject for biomedical research? Are we blameworthy if we don't...

By Alistair Driver, Farmers Guardian | 03.29.2011
The EU Parliament and the Council of Ministers had one final chance to reach agreement on updating the Novel Foods...
By Sean O'Neill and Steve Bird, The Australian | 03.26.2011
As Delroy Grant, 53, was convicted yesterday of 29 counts of rape, sexual assault and burglary, the Metropolitan Police said...
By Maria Danilova, The San Diego Union-Tribune | 03.24.2011
A French family has been detained for trying to hide their two surrogate infants under a mattress in their van...
By Jennifer Rankin, EuropeanVoice.com | 03.24.2011
Last-ditch talks on how the European Union regulates animal cloning are at risk of collapse.

MEPs look set for a...
By Kim Christensen, The Los Angeles Times | 03.23.2011
Federal prosecutors were surprised to learn this week that Dr. Ricardo Asch, who was being held in Mexico City for...
By Marisa Taylor and Michael Doyle, The Kansas City Star | 03.20.2011

For nearly three years, the military held the key to Roger House's exoneration and didn't tell him: A forensics examiner...

By Jonathan Kahn, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 03.17.2011
In recent years the issue of whether, how and when to use racial categories in biomedicine has been a subject...