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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.

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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By Nathan Koppel, Wall Street Journal | 01.15.2010

Four years ago, Donald Robinson Hollingsworth and Sean Hollingsworth, a gay couple living in New Jersey, set in motion their...

By Editorial, Investor's Business Daily | 01.12.2010

Five years after a budget-busting $3 billion was allocated to embryonic stem cell research, there have been no cures, no...

By Kate Sikora, The Daily Telegraph | 01.12.2010
A blood test that can determine the gender and genetic abnormalities in a unborn baby as early as five weeks...
By Agence France Presse, Agence France Presse | 01.11.2010

More than 24 million Chinese men of marrying age could find themselves without spouses in 2020, state media reported on...

By Jonathan Leake, The Times | 01.10.2010
Scientists have discovered that the DNA of babies conceived through IVF differs from that of other children, putting them at...
By Kimi Yoshino, Los Angeles Times | 01.08.2010
The Medical Board of California has accused a Beverly Hills fertility doctor of a pattern of gross negligence that led...
By Jessica Fargen, Boston Herald | 01.08.2010
A 35-year-old mother of nine is suing a Springfield hospital, three doctors and two nurses, claiming they permanently sterilized her...
By Mark Henderson, The Times | 01.07.2010
Parental demand for “designer babies” screened to lack faulty genes will grow dramatically over the next decade, with new discoveries...