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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 Victoria Brignell, NewStatesman | 12.10.2010
This is the second in Brignell's series to mark disability history month. "The eugenics movement Britain wants to forget" and ...
By Tamara Audi and Arlene Chang, The Wall Street Journal | 12.10.2010

In a hospital room on the Greek island of Crete with views of a sapphire sea lapping at ancient fortress...
By Jonathan Saltzman, The Boston Globe | 12.10.2010
The long arm of the law just got longer.

The state’s highest court ruled yesterday that prosecutors can indict suspects...
By Jef Akst, The Scientist | 12.08.2010

Circulating in the blood of pregnant women is the full genome of their unborn child, according to a study published...
By Mary Ann Roser, statesman.com | 12.08.2010
A federal class action lawsuit filed today in San Antonio claims the state “deceptively and unlawfully sold, traded, bartered, and...
By Carl Zimmer, Slate | 12.07.2010

On Thursday, Dec. 2, Rosie Redfield sat down to read a new paper called "A Bacterium That Can Grow by...
By Kevin B. O'Reilly, Amednews.com | 12.06.2010

In the 1930s and 1940s, hundreds of German medical professionals took part in a euthanasia program that targeted children younger...

By Susan Perry, MinnPost.com | 12.06.2010
Eight University of Minnesota bioethicists have sent a letter to the university’s Board of Regents, asking it to appoint an...