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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 Michael S. Schmidt and Aland Schwarz, New York Times | 07.22.2009
Confronted with cases of identity and age falsification by Latin American baseball prospects, Major League Baseball is conducting genetic testing...
By Alin Romascan (Bucharest), Dan Even, Barak Ravid and Fadi Eyadat, Haaretz | 07.22.2009
A court in Romania has ordered the detention for another 29 days of two Israeli physicians, Harry Mironescu and his...
By Tom Harvey, Salt Lake City Tribune | 07.22.2009
The University of Utah and Myriad Genetics have asked a federal judge in New York to dismiss a high-profile lawsuit...
By GenomeWeb, GenomeWeb News | 07.22.2009

The American College of Clinical Pharmacy has called for federal oversight of direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies, which it believes could...

By Daniel Woolls, Associated Press | 07.15.2009
A Spanish woman who deceived a U.S. fertility clinic about her age and become the oldest woman to give birth...
By New Scientist, New Scientist | 07.12.2009

You can't get something for nothing, especially when it comes to acquiring women's eggs for medical research. But it is...

By Courier Mail, Courier Mail | 07.11.2009

Vietnamese doctors who reveal the sex of a foetus to parents could lose their licences, state media reported today.

The...

By Nora Schultz, Technology Review | 07.08.2009
Genetic tests designed to weed out embryos that are unlikely to grow into healthy babies after in vitro fertilization (IVF)...