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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 Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 03.22.2010
Residents of New York State who want to send saliva for DNA testing by 23andMe should do their spitting outside...
By Maggie Fox, Reuters | 03.22.2010

Myriad Genetics' (MYGN.O) disputed patent on the BRCA1 breast cancer gene is "surprisingly broad" and could interfere with...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 03.19.2010
Connected to Google by both love and money, 23andMe seems the epitome of a 21st-century company - a cutting-edge merging...
By Natasha Gilbert, Nature | 03.17.2010

When Peter Hoe was found stabbed to death in his home in North Yorkshire, UK, in the afternoon of 13...

By Lois Rogers, The Times | 03.14.2010
A fertility clinic is raffling a human egg in London to promote its new "baby profiling" service, which circumvents British...
By Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop and Lindy Kerin, Australian Broadcasting Corporation News | 03.13.2010
The Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon says she would be very uncomfortable about allowing parents to choose their children's sex...
By Moscow Times, Moscow Times | 03.11.2010

The State Duma has renewed a temporary ban on human cloning in Russia, Interfax reported Wednesday.

The bill, approved in...

By Tara Bannow, The Minnesota Daily | 03.09.2010
Jay Cohn, a cardiologist for more than 50 years, was fighting a losing battle against heart failure in the 1980s...