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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 Tom Harvey, The Salt Lake City Tribune | 09.29.2009
Raising the ante in a high-stakes dispute, the American Medical Association has intervened in a lawsuit against Myriad Genetics and...
By Patrick Sawer and Leonard Doyle , The Telegraph | 09.26.2009

Rather than proudly taking the child home from the hospital, Mrs Savage has now had to hand him over to...

By Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press | 09.25.2009
NEW ORLEANS - A suburban New Orleans hospital has suspended operations at its in vitro fertilization center because of concerns...
By Jeanette Winterson, The New York Times | 09.20.2009
Fatefulness about the survival of the species is not new. Religious thinking has end-time built in, and for most of...
By Stephanie Nolen, The Globe and Mail | 09.19.2009
The information is traded in whispers over cappuccinos in the cafés of South Delhi and in the locker rooms of...
By Jesse Reynolds, Bioethics Forum | 09.18.2009

Researchers at the Oregon National Primate Research Center recently announced the birth of four monkeys after a procedure that involved...

By Paul Gelsinger, The Philadelphia Inquirer | 09.17.2009
Ten years ago today, my 18-year-old son, Jesse Gelsinger, died at the University of Pennsylvania in a gene-therapy trial. Who...
By Laura Donnelly, The Telegraph (UK) | 09.12.2009
New rules coming into force next month will give scientists working on stem cell research access to samples of blood...