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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 Chris Sullivan, MyNorthwest.com | 02.02.2011
There are few things as personal as your DNA. It determines your eye color, your hair color, your body type...
By Sumitra Deb Roy, The Times of India | 02.02.2011
It is an odd tale of two brothers. A pair of twins born to a surrogate lives stateless, while the...
By Anthony Baxter, BBC | 02.01.2011
Home DNA testing kits are going on sale in Boots stores across the UK later.

Until now, the paternity packs...
By Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 02.01.2011
The term “reproductive tourism” first surfaced in Canada in the late 1980s as that country carried out an exhaustive survey...
By CTV News, CTV News [Canada] | 01.29.2011

The birth of a new baby signifies hope, promise and family.

But for an estimated one in 10 Canadians it's...

By Benjamin Weiser, The New York Times | 01.28.2011
A federal appeals court in Manhattan overturned a six-and-a-half-year sentence in a child pornography case on Friday, saying the judge...
By Kounteya Sinha, Times of India | 01.27.2011
A woman acting as surrogate mother in India cannot be less than 21 or over 35 years. Also, she cannot...
By Turna Ray, GenomeWeb | 01.26.2011
The National Institutes of Health and the US Food and Drug Administration will work together to update FDA's regulatory initiatives...