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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 Michelle Andrews, The Washington Post | 01.24.2011
Is health insurance coverage of infertility treatments an essential benefit to help people manage a medical disorder? Or is it...
By Christina Stevens, Global News | 01.24.2011
Genetically engineered pork may one day become a part of your local grocer's food list. But who's to decide whether...
By Jonathan Kahn, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 01.24.2011
In 2009, the director of the National Science Foundation gave a key note address at an interdisciplinary conference on synthetic...
By Anwesha Mittra, Times of India | 01.23.2011
Boy or girl? Now you can choose" reads the blasphemous punchline of one of Thailand's many fertility centres that offer...
By Osagie Obasogie, The New Scientist | 01.22.2011

A great deal of scientific research – especially in medicine – relies on human subjects. Protecting volunteers has been a...

By Robert Brauchle, Utica Observer-Dispatch | 01.20.2011
Police departments throughout the state can access an ever-expanding databank of DNA samples collected from felons to help solve open...
By Susan Donaldson James, ABC News | 01.20.2011
During a two-year legal battle, Anthony and Shawn Raftopol, Americans who live in Holland, worried that only one of the...
By Jane Fae Ozimek, The Register (UK) | 01.19.2011
West Yorkshire Police have sought to clarify a senior officer's remarks after she called for a database of all men...