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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 Max Kozlov, Nature | 09.14.2023

A hairless, pale-skinned lamb lies on its side in what appears to be an oversized sandwich bag filled with hazy...

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By Steven Levy, Wired | 09.05.2023

The air crackles with an almost Beatlemaniac energy as the star and his entourage tumble into a waiting Mercedes van...

The California Flag
By Shefali Luthra, The 19th News | 09.05.2023

It was more money than Moonlight Pulido had ever held in her hands. Looking at the check — $15,000 from...

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By Carina Cheng, Oliver Hu and Larissa Gao, NBC News | 09.04.2023

Photo by Alison Pang on Unsplash

Early this year, shortly after China lifted strict “zero-Covid” measures that had kept it...

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By James Tabery, Wired | 09.04.2023

You really can't understand all the excitement surrounding personalized medicine without knowing a little bit about Gleevec. And once you know...

He Jiankui delivering a speech
By Dana Goodyear, The New Yorker | 09.02.2023

He Jiankui, a young Chinese scientist known to his American colleagues as JK, dreamed of remaking humanity by exploiting the...

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By Sarah Marsh, The Guardian | 09.01.2023

Photo by Yana Marudova on Unsplash

Caroline cried cycling to work after discovering she was going through early menopause. She...