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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...

A vibrant rainbow is painted onto a road. Two feet wearing white shoes are situated at the bottom of the picture facing the rainbow
By Jason Horowitz, The New York Times | 04.04.2023

Photo by Carlos de Toro @carlosdetoro on Unsplash

MILAN — After a long flight from Seattle with their newborn son...

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By Zoe Beketova, Progress Educational Trust | 04.03.2023

The Law Commissions of Scotland and England and Wales have published proposals to reform UK surrogacy law.

Their joint report...

Silhouette of a human with the Scales of Justice where the brain would be
By Geoffrey Mock, Duke Today | 03.31.2023

For decades genetics and genomics researchers have used race, ethnicity, ancestry and other population descriptors in research that has opened...

A human face being scanned by AI technology
By Kashmir Hill and Ryan Mac, The New York Times | 03.31.2023

On the Friday afternoon after Thanksgiving, Randal Quran Reid was driving his white Jeep to his mother’s home outside Atlanta...

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By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 03.30.2023

Seventeen California scientists won a total of $26 million this week to devise ways to overcome knowledge gaps and bottlenecks...

a neon sign in the shape of a person's side profile and brain. The profile is red and the brain is yellow. This is on an unlit brown background.
By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 03.30.2023

CHICAGO — When she entered the field of Alzheimer’s research a quarter century ago, Lisa Barnes was deeply disappointed to...

A DNA test strip
By Noura Abul-Husn, STAT | 03.29.2023

Twenty years ago, virtually all people seeking genetic testing were individuals diagnosed with diseases possibly linked to their genetic makeup...

the silhouettes of three people. Two are red and are on either side. A pink person is slightly higher than the rest with an arrow pointing up and a star at the top.
By Chris Wiggins and Matthew L Jones, Literary Hub | 03.27.2023

When the gentleman-​scholar Francis Galton inspected his fellow men of Victorian Britain, he found them wanting: “We want abler commanders...