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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 Jennifer Corbett Dooran, Wall Street Journal | 07.19.2010
A high bar is likely to be set for companies seeking to sell genetic tests directly to consumers, according to...
By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 07.17.2010
One woman panicked when the genetic test she had ordered over the Internet concluded that her son was carrying a...
By Bridget M. Kuehn, Journal of the American Medical Association | 07.14.2010
Companies that manufacture or market direct-to-consumer tests must submit their products for premarketing review and approval by the Food and...
By Shaya Tayefe Mohajer, Associated Press | 07.14.2010

The fertility doctor of "Octomom" Nadya Suleman implanted too many embryos in one patient, resulting in the death of a...

By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle | 07.14.2010

Challenging a California law that requires police to collect the DNA of all suspected felons, an American Civil Liberties Union...

By Katie Worth, San Francisco Examiner | 07.11.2010
Public libraries, special education programs, law enforcement agencies, parks, services for the elderly — all have been wounded by the...
By Ferris Jabr, Scientific American | 07.09.2010
State legislators have lined up a bill aimed at preventing the University of California, Berkeley, from executing a controversial program...
By Jennifer Steinhauer, The New York Times | 07.08.2010
LOS ANGELES — The arrest in the case of the “Grim Sleeper” — a serial killer who terrorized South Los...