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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...

corn in husk
By Natalie Alcoba, Al Jazeera | 09.22.2023

Photo by Wouter Supardi Salari on Unsplash

Corn is sacred in Mexico. Its roots can be traced to Aztec and...

lab scientist in white lab coat
By Biolab Watch, Patch | 09.19.2023

Press Release: September 19, 2023

Contact: Jeremy Gruber, JD., jgruber@humanebiotech.org; (415) 483-9410

MASSIVE BIOLAB BOOM IN BERKELEY SPURS RESIDENTS...

brain networks
By Leigha McReynolds, Tor | 09.19.2023

The 2011 X-Men franchise prequel, X-Men: First Class, briefly featured a mutant named Darwin who could adapt to any...

researcher editing gene
By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 09.18.2023

A high-precision successor to CRISPR genome editing has reached a milestone: the technique, called base editing, has made its...

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By Aki Ito, Insider | 09.18.2023

Sure, there have been a few nutjobs out there who think AI will wipe out the human race. But ever...

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By PA Media, The Guardian | 09.18.2023

Dozens of young adults born via sperm or egg donation will be able to find out their biological origins in...

Poster promoting eugenics
By Adam Serwer, The Atlantic | 09.15.2023

The pseudoscience of eugenics is making a comeback on the American right. In August, the HuffPost reporter Christopher Mathias unmasked...

dolly the sheep
By Gregory E. Kaebnick, STAT | 09.15.2023

Ian Wilmut, the British scientist behind the first-ever cloning of a mammal, died Sept. 10, leaving behind a twofold legacy...