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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 Mike Stobbe, The Washington Post | 02.27.2011
Shocking as it may seem, U.S. government doctors once thought it was fine to experiment on disabled people and prison...
By Alessandra Rafferty, Newsweek | 02.25.2011
Toronto journalist Olivia Pratten is awaiting a landmark decision from a Canadian court on the disclosure of sperm donors’ records...
By Paul Rincon, BBC News | 02.24.2011
Peter Gill told the BBC that UK courts would not accept forensic tests whose details are kept secret due to...
By Nathan Gorenstein, Philadelphia Inquirer | 02.24.2011
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia will decide whether it is constitutional for the government to take DNA samples from...
By AFP, AFP | 02.24.2011

Fourteen Vietnamese women, seven of them pregnant, have been rescued from an "illegal and inhuman" surrogate baby breeding ring in...

By The China Post/ Asia News Network , The China Post/ Asia News Network [Taiwan] | 02.24.2011

Taipei District Court Tuesday gave probations to three men who had imported women from Uzbekistan into the country to serve...

By Kiran Chug, The Dominion Post | 02.21.2011
Unacceptable death rates of laboratory animals have forced AgResearch to end its cloning trials.

But the science agency says it...
By Katie Worth, San Francisco Examiner | 02.20.2011
California taxpayers have spent $135 million in recent years building state-of-the-art research facilities on four private campuses for stem cell...