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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 Maura Dolan Jason Felch, Los Angeles Times | 04.26.2008
California will adopt the most aggressive approach in the nation to a controversial crime-fighting technique that uses DNA to try...
By Jim Abrams, Associated Press | 04.24.2008
WASHINGTON (AP) - People learning through genetic testing that they might be susceptible to devastating diseases wouldn't also have to...
By Victoria Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle | 04.24.2008

The California Department of Public Health is investigating consumer complaints against at least six online companies that conduct direct-to-consumer genetic...
By Joann Klimkiewicz, The Hartford Courant | 04.24.2008
More than 20 years ago, a bitter custody battle over a child known as Baby M made national headlines, ushering...
By Adele Waters, Mirror | 04.22.2008
Every year, thousands of women suffer terrible physical side-effects and heartbreak as they go through gruelling IVF in their desperation...
By Donna Dickenson, The Sunday Times | 04.20.2008

In one corner, wearing black trunks and a red biretta: Cardinal Keith O'Brien, head of the Roman Catholic Church in...
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 04.20.2008
Twenty years after DNA fingerprints were first admitted by American courts as a way to link suspects to crime scenes...
By Robert Langreth and Matthew Herper, Forbes | 04.18.2008
The flashy new industry of personalized gene testing is experiencing some early blowback.

Over the last six months, New York...