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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 Argyro Nicolaou, CyprusMail | 09.16.2010

POLICE are waiting for the green light from Ukrainian authorities in order to begin an investigation into claims of human...

By Doree Shafrir, Newsweek | 09.16.2010


Over the summer, two movies that both used sperm donors as plot devices sent the conservative “commentariat” into a conniption...

By Jennifer Rogers, RH Reality Check | 09.16.2010

The hubbub of Kate Plus 8 and Nadya Suleman is largely over. One year ago, articles covering multiple births and...

By Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee | 09.15.2010
In the first decision of its kind in the nation, a split appellate court has ruled in a Sacramento case...
By George Annas, The New England Journal of Medicine | 09.15.2010
Embryo research was born political. Expressions of shock and surprise at the August 23 ruling of federal district court judge...
By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 09.15.2010
Over the past 12 months, in scattered cases reported in top medical journals, doctors have done something amazing: They have...
By Gregory M. Lamb, Christian Science Monitor | 09.15.2010
Kevin Davies sent a sample of his saliva to a genetic testing laboratory in Iceland to learn about his health...
By Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Media Relations | 09.10.2010
BERKELEY - A controversial UC Berkeley program to analyze three genes in the DNA of incoming students culminates next week...