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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 | 01.04.2011
Anyone who has been broadly dissatisfied by the bioethical response to human biotechnologies will  want to check out sociologist Amitai...
By Francine Coeytaux, Marcy Darnovsky, Susan Berke Fogel, Contraception | 01.01.2011

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Over the past...

By Douglas Quan, The Vancouver Sun | 01.01.2011

Killers and crooks, clean up after yourselves.

Scientists appear to be on the cusp of being able to develop physical...

By Kashmir Hill, Forbes | 12.30.2010
The next big privacy battle may be over who has access to your DNA.

It is becoming surprisingly easy for...
By Krissah Thompson, The Washington Post | 12.30.2010
Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) has announced that he will grant an early release from prison to two sisters serving...
By Catherine Saillant, Los Angeles Times | 12.28.2010
A physician who rocked a UC Irvine fertility clinic 15 years ago, when he and a partner switched the frozen...
By Jonathan Kahn, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 12.27.2010
I've been thinking lately about the current excitement over the promise and potential of synthetic biology. The basic idea of...
By Sharon Kirkey and Janice Tibbetts, Canada.com | 12.22.2010
A Supreme Court ruling placing much of Canada's burgeoning fertility industry under provincial control leaves an enormous gap in the...