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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 Karen McVeigh, The Guardian | 07.08.2009
Scientists claim to have created human sperm for the first time, in a breakthrough they say could lead to new...
By Alex Philippidis, BioRegion News | 07.06.2009
California's budget stalemate will delay until next year a key lawmaker's effort to change how the state's stem cell agency...
By Maggie Fox, Reuters | 07.06.2009
The U.S. government released final rules on Monday governing federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells, loosening some requirements...
By Fiona Macrae, Courier Mail | 07.05.2009
Women who freeze their eggs to delay motherhood are being given false hope by some fertility clinics, an IVF expert...
By Agence France Presse, Agence France Presse | 07.03.2009

HANOI (AFP) - Vietnam, concerned that too many boys are being born, will destroy more than 30,000 copies of books...

By Osagie K. Obasogie, New Scientist | 07.01.2009

As the 20th-century world recoiled from the horrors of Nazi Germany and the eugenics movement, we learned how economic, political...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Democracy (Summer 2009) | 07.01.2009
By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 06.30.2009

Matthew Brzica and his wife hardly noticed when the hospital took a few drops of blood from each of their...