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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 Tom Blackwell, National Post | 10.06.2010

When a B.C. couple discovered that the fetus their surrogate mother was carrying was likely to be born with Down...

By Kenyon Wallace, Ottawa Citizen | 10.05.2010

As a young girl, Olivia Pratten would stand in front of the mirror studying her nose, cheeks and mouth, trying...

By Rob Stein, The Washington Post | 10.04.2010

Robert G. Edwards's breakthrough development of in vitro fertilization, which led to the birth of the first "test-tube baby," Louise...

By Donald G. McNeil, Jr., The New York Times | 10.01.2010

From 1946 to 1948, American public health doctors deliberately infected nearly 700 Guatemalans — prison inmates, mental patients and soldiers...

By Rob Stein, The Washington Post | 09.30.2010

Scientists have invented an efficient way to produce apparently safe alternatives to human embryonic stem cells without destroying embryos, a...

By Dan Vorhaus and John Conley, Genomics Law Report | 09.29.2010
Several months ago we reported that a group of Australian plaintiffs had initiated litigation challenging the validity of Myriad's Australian...
By Amy Standen, NPR Morning Edition | 09.27.2010
Scientists are hoping that a new DNA database for dogs will help track - and prosecute - people who breed...
By BBC, BBC News | 09.24.2010

The government may scrap 177 publicly funded non-governmental advisory bodies, or quangos, and another 94 are under threat, according to...