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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 Shekhar Bhatia, The Evening Standard | 05.20.2009

One leading obstetrician at a Mumbai hospital says she delivers on average one baby to a British couple every 48...
By BBC, BBC News | 05.20.2009

A study found these babies were far more likely to be admitted to neonatal intensive care and to be hospitalised...

By Ginger Allen, Dallas CBS 11 | 05.18.2009
A simple DNA test may be able to determine if a child has what it takes to become a 'super...
By Shaila Dewan, New York Times | 05.17.2009
In an age of advanced forensic science, the first step toward ending Kenneth Reed’s prolonged series of legal appeals should...
By John Schwartz, New York Times | 05.12.2009
When Genae Girard received a diagnosis of breast cancer in 2006, she knew she would be facing medical challenges and...
By Jeanne Whalen, Wall Street Journal | 05.12.2009
In Massachusetts, a young woman makes genetically modified E. coli in a closet she converted into a home lab. A...
By Courier Mail, Courier Mail | 05.10.2009

A test that claims to determine the sex of an unborn baby only eight weeks into a pregnancy will be...

By Marie McCullough, Philadelphia Inquirer | 05.08.2009
After almost a decade of reflection, University of Pennsylvania researcher James M. Wilson says problems with the gene-therapy experiment that...