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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 Matt Krupnick, Contra Costa Times | 08.03.2010

When UC Berkeley researchers announced earlier this year they planned to stimulate discussion by asking new students to submit DNA...

By Steve Johnson, Mercury News | 07.30.2010

A Menlo Park biotech firm said Friday that federal regulators will let it proceed with the world's first human test...

By Jason Burke, The Guardian | 07.30.2010

Shabnum Nur Mohammed Sheikh's reasons for bearing another woman's child are straightforward: the 60 rupees (80p) her husband earns from...

By Lisa Adams, Daily Record | 07.29.2010

MEET the doctor who is making Scots' dreams of designing the perfect baby come true.

Dr Jeffrey Steinberg reveals five...

By Peter Aldhous, New Scientist | 07.29.2010
ARE we witnessing the beginning of the end of "personal genomics"? After a bruising hearing in the US Congress last...
By Natasha Singer, The New York Times | 07.24.2010

It's the latest criminal investigation technique, and it gives new meaning to that old saw "the ties that bind."

Recently...

By Steve Johnson, Mercury News | 07.22.2010
In an undercover federal sting made public Thursday, two Bay Area genetic testing companies were found to offer information that...
By Rebecca Smith, The Telegraph | 07.22.2010

Hundreds of British couples could have children that are biologically theirs living with other parents around Europe or across the...