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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 Francis Elliott and Richard Ford , The Times | 04.08.2010
The Tories have abandoned attempts to block the retention of DNA samples, to pre-empt a Labour campaign led by the...
By The Telegraph, The Telegraph | 04.08.2010

Zarela Olsen decided to clone her horse Capuchino, who was named Paso Fino "Horse of the Millennium" in 1999, before...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, Science Progress | 04.07.2010

Since the times of Galileo and as recently as climate change researchers’ battles with the Bush administration, scientists have defended...

By Editorial, Charlottesville Daily Progress [Quotes CGS's Jesse Reynolds] | 04.06.2010

Should researchers be allowed to patent your genes?

No, said a U.S. district court in a ruling that opponents contend...

By Julie Deardorff, Chicago Tribune | 04.06.2010
Rachel Lehmann-Haupt was 37 when she froze her eggs, a process technically known as oocyte cryopreservation. She knew it wouldn't...
By The Guardian, Denis Campbell | 04.05.2010
Childless couples who acquire a baby using a surrogate mother abroad risk not being recognised as its parents in Britain...
By Jo Willey and Nick Fagge, Daily Express | 04.05.2010
Thousands of childless older British women desperate to be mothers are flocking to eastern Europe for IVF, the Daily Express...
By Amanda Mitchison, The Guardian | 04.03.2010
Susan Gunn is a slender, pretty woman married to Robert, an investment manager. Robert is a martial arts fiend and...