News

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 Marcy Darnovsky, Progress in Bioethics | 01.29.2010

From The MIT Press announcement:

Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy, and Politics
Edited by Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 01.29.2010
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - The new movie "Extraordinary Measures" is based on the true story of a father who starts...
By Clive Cookson, Financial Times | 01.28.2010
Stem cell scientists at Stanford University in California announced "a huge step forward" last night, with the publication of research...
By Chris Berdik, Washington Post | 01.26.2010

Last fall, Sgt. Timothy Gall, an Army medic stationed at Fort Belvoir, sought clues to the multiple sclerosis and heart...

By Jaya Menon, The Times of India | 01.25.2010
CHENNAI: As high drama is being played out in Indian courts over surrogacy issues, the US consulate in Chennai, perhaps...
By Lois Rogers, The Telegraph | 01.24.2010
Fertility regulators have triggered a new row over designer babies by allowing doctors to destroy embryos affected by more than...
By Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times | 01.24.2010
ALBANY — New York has become the latest of a handful of jurisdictions to permit a controversial use of DNA...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Unraveling the Fertility Industry: Challenges and Strategies for Movement Building | 01.23.2010
The US fertility industry is a lucrative and ever-expanding business, operating with very little by way of public regulation or...