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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 BBC, BBC News | 02.18.2009

A boy treated with foetal stem cells for a rare genetic disease has developed benign tumours, raising questions about the...

By Allen Goldberg, Los Angeles Times | 02.17.2009
Something stinks about reproductive medicine in Southern California, and it doesn't involve eight dirty diapers.

Recently, the Los Angeles-based Fertility...
By William Saletan, Slate | 02.17.2009
Is the era of designer babies finally here?

Every week, it seems, we're told that this discovery or that technology...
By Gina Kolata, New York Times | 02.17.2009
Over the past 30 years, in vitro fertilization has been reassuringly safe. Millions of healthy children have been born and...
By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press | 02.17.2009
A Vatican official warned on Tuesday that advances in genetic testing were creating a slow but "relentless" spread of a...
By Daily Mail, Daily Mail | 02.17.2009

Forensic experts will soon be able to reconstruct facial features and skin just by reading DNA, U.S. scientists said.

'Forensic...

By Angela Townsend, The Plain Dealer | 02.17.2009
If you're not a woman of child-bearing age, you may never have heard of egg freezing.

But this form of...
By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times | 02.14.2009
When the identity of Nadya Suleman's fertility doctor was made public this week, the Internet lit up with angry commentary...