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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 Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Commonwealth University | 05.18.2010

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By Julie Steenhuysen, Reuters | 05.13.2010
Genetic tests sold directly to consumers to help people trace their ancestry are imperfect and may lead some people to...
By New York Times, Andrew Pollack | 05.13.2010
Walgreens said late Wednesday that it would postpone selling a personal genetic test through its drugstores after the Food and...
By Tony Dutra and Joyce Cutler, The Bureau of National Affairs | 05.12.2010
The Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences at the Patent and Trademark Office found April 28 that a patent on...
By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 05.11.2010
Beginning Friday, shoppers in search of toothpaste, deodorant and laxatives at more than 6,000 drugstores across the nation will be...
By David Tuller, New York Times | 05.11.2010
As an undergraduate at the University of Washington in the late 1990s, Wendie Wilson noticed some striking ads in the...
By Nicola Smith, The Times | 05.09.2010
Cradling her baby, Oliver, Alison, 31, happily strokes his head, holds his hands and feeds him from a bottle, like...
By Gallup, Gallup | 05.06.2010

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...