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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 Nicholas Wade, The New York Times | 02.17.2011
Nearly 20 percent of the nonhuman genomes held in computer databases are contaminated with human DNA, presumably from the researchers...
By Tracy Clark-Flory, Salon | 02.16.2011
Is it appropriate to involuntarily sterilize a mentally disabled person? That's the question a British judge is mulling in the...
By Tim Ross, The Telegraph | 02.14.2011

The secretive Court of Protection will rule on the woman’s case on Tuesday, in a rare open hearing scheduled because...
By BBC, BBC News [United Kingdom] | 02.11.2011

Hundreds of thousands of DNA profiles on the national database will be deleted, the government has announced.

Under the proposals...

By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, The Los Angeles Times | 02.10.2011
California's medical board Wednesday rejected a judge's recommendation that the Beverly Hills fertility doctor who assisted Nadya Suleman in conceiving...
By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 02.09.2011
Longtime Geron Corp. President and CEO Thomas Okarma has stepped down, replaced by Chief Financial Officer David Greenwood and director...
By Jamie Grey, KTVB.com | 02.04.2011
A Boise woman has been indicted by a federal grand jury on multiple charges of defrauding egg donors, according to...
By Jim Thomas, Slate | 02.02.2011
Here's a grim prediction to chew on. This biotech craze dubbed "synthetic biology"—where hipster geeks design quirky life-forms: That technology...