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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 Nic Fleming, The Times (UK) | 09.07.2008
Leading genetic testing companies are providing clients with widely divergent and inaccurate predictions of their chances of developing serious diseases...
By Alex Roslin, Montreal Gazette | 09.06.2008
Canadians may have been consuming food from clones for years without knowing it, despite a Health Canada ban.

That's one...
By Associated Press, Associated Press | 09.03.2008

BRUSSELS, Belgium -

EU lawmakers called Wednesday for an EU-wide ban on meat from cloned animals, claiming that they may...

By Eric Wahlgren, The Journal of Life Sciences | 09.02.2008
Americans, no doubt about it, are lousy when it comes to going to the polls. Since 1945, U.S. turnout has...
By Christopher Doering, Reuters | 09.02.2008

Food and milk from the offspring of cloned animals may have entered the U.S. food supply, the U.S. government said...

By Marcy Darnovsky and Hank Greely, Democracy | 08.31.2008

Henry Greely inaccurately characterizes my organization, the Center for Genetics and Society, as "drawn to arguments against [inheritable human genetic...

By Chris Smith, San Francisco | 08.31.2008
In the fall of 2006, a grisly murder case landed on Bicka Barlow’s desk, one that had gone unsolved...
By Donna Dickenson, The Independent | 08.28.2008
In the 1960s, feminists coined the slogan, "Our bodies, our selves". But that liberating sentiment has recently undergone an ironic...