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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...

IVF
By Anna Louie Sussman, The New York Times | 08.21.2026

Since in vitro fertilization was invented nearly 50 years ago, at least 10 million children who would not otherwise exist...

best baby graphic
By Dan Falk, Nautilus | 08.20.2026

The pseudoscience of eugenics, founded on the mistaken notion that nature envisions some “right” combination of genes, and that selective...

hospital clinic in black and white
By Ryan Cross, Endpoints News | 08.20.2026

China’s cheap, fast and quiet system for testing cutting-edge medicines is facing scrutiny after the deaths of three people in...

Donald Trump
By Jenni Fink, Newsweek | 08.19.2026

Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

President Donald Trump's latest effort to limit...

ivf interrupted
By Anna Collinson and Jo Adnitt, BBC | 08.18.2026

At least 30 children, most of them British, are feared to have been conceived by IVF treatment in northern Cyprus...

gene graphic
By Emily Packard Dawson and Lainie Friedman Ross, MedPage Today | 08.18.2026

Few things evoke a greater sense of desperation than a parent seeking an experimental treatment for their child. That desperation...

stem cells
By Editors, Nature | 08.18.2026

Shinya Yamanaka doesn’t see himself as a celebrity. But people do recognize the stem-cell researcher when he’s out for a...

immigrants at Ellis Island undergoing medical inspection
By Hamed Aleaziz, The New York Times | 08.13.2026

Immigrants at Ellis Island undergoing a medical inspection | Photo by The New York Public Library on Unsplash

In 1924...