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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.

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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

a beagle with a red collar
By Adithi Ramakrishnan, AP News | 08.05.2026

NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Walker couldn’t pet a dog without sneezing — until he and other scientists used a ...

sperm
By Sophie Ryall , BioNews | 08.03.2026

A fertility doctor is being sued for using his own sperm during artificial insemination procedures without the patient's knowledge or...

DNA in a magnifying glass
By Dhruv Mehrotra , Wired | 08.03.2026

On March 13, 2025, Hugo Moreno-Mendez arrived at the McLennan County Probation Department in Waco, Texas, expecting a routine probation...

a gavel with a DNA strand
By Katherine Long, Wall Street Journal | 07.31.2026

Kyla Simpson pulled up to the St. Johns County, Fla., sheriff’s office in a black SUV in June with two...

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By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 07.30.2026

As of this week in Montana, any biotech company with an experimental drug has a clear path to selling it...

IVF graphics with dollar sign
By Edward Chen, Nature | 07.28.2026

A small number of fertility clinics around the world are offering a controversial treatment: a procedure to furnish clients’ embryos...

gene editing
By John Travis , Science | 07.27.2026

Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine over the weekend said it would launch a “comprehensive investigation” into the previously...

stop forced sterilization
By Lillian Koll Ross , Ms. Magazine | 07.25.2026

In 1937, the U.S. began one of the largest sterilization campaigns in modern history in its colony of Puerto Rico...