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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 Jeremy Laurance, The Independent (UK) | 10.14.2010

No area of medicine has advanced more rapidly, nor created more controversy, than the treatment of infertility. In the 32...

By Susan Perry, MinnPost.com | 10.14.2010

This week, the directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH)...

By Tom Blackwell, National Post | 10.13.2010
Women are delaying childbirth until later and later in life partly because they have an exaggerated belief that fertility treatments...
By Josephine Johnston, The Scientist | 10.13.2010

It’s hard not to feel sorry for American embryonic stem cell (ESC) researchers. Over the dozen years since the cells...

By Rob Stein, The Washington Post | 10.11.2010

Doctors have injected millions of human embryonic stem cells into a patient partially paralyzed by a spinal cord injury, marking...

By Angelique Rodrigues, Edmonton Sun | 10.09.2010

A Grande Prairie woman has launched a $700,000 lawsuit against the province alleging she was sexually sterilized as a 15-year-old...

By Jane Fae Ozimek, The Register | 10.09.2010

The French national police force – la Gendarmerie – yesterday stood accused of operating a secret and illegal database of...

By Michael S. Schmidt, The New York Times | 10.09.2010

After it was revealed last year that investigators for Major League Baseball were using DNA testing on teenage prospects and...