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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 Mike Steere, CNN | 10.30.2008
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Bring your partner, grab a seat, pick up your baby catalog and start choosing.

Will you...
By Jeanne Whalen and Ron Winslow, The Wall Street Journal | 10.29.2008
The financial crunch is shaking the foundation of the global biotech industry, threatening to slow the development of new medicines...
By Rebecca Smith and Caroline Gammell, Telegraph | 10.27.2008
Children and young people who go through cancer are often left infertile by the treatment and are faced with having...
By Rob Stein, Washington Post | 10.26.2008
Doctors have started using powerful new DNA tests to screen fetuses for a wider range of genetic abnormalities, spotting more...
By Laura Graff, Winston-Salen Journal | 10.24.2008
Elaine Riddick has told the story of her childhood dozens of times before, but that didn't stop her voice from...
By Mark Henderson, The Times | 10.24.2008
The development of a universal embryo test that can detect almost any genetic disease is a landmark in medical science's...
By Solomon Moore, The New York Times | 10.24.2008
LOS ANGELES - Local and state law enforcement agencies have made uneven progress in reducing a nationwide backlog of cases...
By Richard Powers, GQ | 10.24.2008
I come from a long line of folks, on my mother's side, with congenital difficulty making choices. My father's family...