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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 Janice Tibbetts and Sharon Kirkey, Canada.com | 12.22.2010
A sharply divided Supreme Court of Canada struck down key federal powers to regulate the country's thriving fertility industry Wednesday...
By Amy Simmons, ABC News (Australia) | 12.22.2010

Research led by University of Melbourne demographer Dr Rebecca Kippen has found 80 per cent of people are against sex-selective...
By Denis Campbell, The Guardian (UK) | 12.22.2010

Women who have one embryo transferred during IVF treatment are five times more likely to give birth to a healthy...

By Jed Lipinski, The New York Times | 12.19.2010
It was a school night in November, and a ragtag band of self-appointed biologists was trolling the Web for discount...
By Osagie K. Obasogie and Keramet A. Reiter, Bioethics | 12.16.2010

We write in response to the conversation initiated in Volume 24.1 of Bioethics, which focused on the role of...

By Rob Stein, The Washington Post | 12.16.2010
The emerging field of "synthetic biology" holds great promise for producing new medicines, cleaning up the environment, and providing alternative...
By Park Si-soo, The Korea Times | 12.16.2010
An appellate court Thursday upheld a ruling that found Hwang Woo-suk — the cloning scientist disgraced for falsely claiming a...
By Harriet A. Washington, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 12.13.2010
A momentous act of prudence stands out as the US Food and Drug Administration’s shining hour.  In 1962, pharmacologist Dr...