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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 New Scientist, New Scientist | 10.21.2009

Egg freezing looks increasingly promising as an insurance policy for women who need or want to delay having children, according...

By BBC, BBC News | 10.19.2009

The government has dropped plans to give ministers wide powers on holding innocent people's DNA data on record.

The Policing...

By Rita Rubin, USA Today | 10.18.2009
The "octomom"'s doctor has been expelled from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the main infertility professional organization, a spokesman...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Progress in Bioethics: Science, Policy and Politics; edited by Jonathan D. Moreno and Sam Berger (The MIT Press, 2010) | 10.16.2009

When bioethical deliberation confronts human biotechnologies, it often faces novel questions that recent technical developments have conjured into existence. Many...

By Amanda Gardner, HealthDay | 10.16.2009
Peter Orszag, the 40-year-old head of the White House Office of Management and Budget, is reported to drink so much...
By Anne Harding, Reuters | 10.14.2009
Fertility clinic websites aren't doing a great job of explaining the risks of testing an embryo for genetic disorders before...
By Agence France Presse, Agence France-Presse | 10.14.2009

Scientists have unveiled the first detailed map of the epigenome, the network of chemical switches that regulates activation of human...

By Marcy Darnovsky, New York Times | 10.14.2009

To the Editor:

The Gift of Life, and Its Price” reports that the fertility industry’s professional organization encourages...