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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...

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By Emily Baumgaetner Nunn, The New York Times | 07.20.2026

The National Institutes of Health recently announced a remarkable achievement: the world’s largest database of human genomes, a repository of...

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By Oscar Lopez, The Guardian | 07.19.2026

Diogo Amaro met his future husband, Loup, in Paris and from the first date, he made one thing clear: he...

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By Tory Shepherd, The Guardian | 07.17.2026

Over eight years, Ethan and his wife went through nine rounds of IVF in Melbourne.

They travelled to Spain for...

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By Risa Cromer, The Conversation | 07.17.2026

About 100,000 babies were born through in vitro fertilization in 2024, according to the most recent U.S. data. But IVF...

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By Darren Incorvaia, Fierce Biotech | 07.16.2026

Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., the Nobel Laureate best known for co-inventing the CRISPR system that has become the foundation for gene...

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By Emily Packard Dawson and Lainie Friedman Ross , The Hastings Center for Bioethics | 07.16.2026

Major news outlets recently reported – based on a bioRxiv preprint – that scientists had edited genes in human embryos...

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By Carissa Wong, New Scientist | 07.08.2026

Healthy lambs have been born via an experimental form of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) that coaxes highly immature eggs to...

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By Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic | 07.07.2026

When Ludivine Verboogen and Romain Alderweireldt’s third child was born in Belgium in late 2015, they marveled at his long...