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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 Stephanie Saul, New York Times | 12.13.2009
Unable to have a baby of her own, Amy Kehoe became her own general contractor to manufacture one. For Ms...
By Steve Connor, The Independent | 12.11.2009

The battle of the sexes is a never-ending war waged within ourselves as male and female elements of our own...

By Clare Murphy, BBC News | 12.09.2009
The fertility watchdog is to look at offering more generous compensation to egg and sperm donors as a means of...
By Shannon Brownlee, Mother Jones (Nov/Dec 2009) | 12.01.2009


There must be something wrong with me. After receiving notice from 23andMe [1] that my personal genetic profile was complete...
By Vivki Brower, Nature | 11.30.2009
Five months after abruptly dismantling the bioethics advisory council left by his predecessor, US President Barack Obama last week created...
By Adi Narayan, Time | 11.27.2009
At first it sounded like science fiction, curing genetic diseases by giving people new genes. Then it seemed like simple...
By Reuters, Reuters | 11.25.2009

The number of baby boys conceived by a fertility treatment known as ICSI may be lower than what is produced...

By Fiona Hamilton, The Times (UK) | 11.24.2009
A missing Pokémon set was a big deal to a young boy in the Nineties. The cards were treasured and...