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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...

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By Alexandra Stevenson and Zixu Wang, The New York Times | 01.22.2023

It was a cold and overcast morning in November, but one full of promise for Guo Meiyan and her husband...

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By Felicia Kornbluh, The Washington Post | 01.20.2023

In June 1973, the Southern Poverty Law Center began publicizing a case it was pursuing in defense of two Black...

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By David Cyranoski, Jorge L. Contreras & Victoria T. Carrington , Nature Biotechnology | 01.18.2023

Stanford bioethicist Henry Greely predicts that a large proportion of human pregnancies — perhaps even 90% in the United States...

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By Maren Linett, Nursing Clio | 01.17.2023

Ann Leary’s 2022 novel The Foundling follows a young white woman, Mary Engle, who in the 1930s lands a job...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 01.17.2023

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Terry Jackson lives a life dominated by sickle cell disease. The genetic disorder, in which...

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By Manuel Ansede, El País | 01.15.2023

The gene editing techniques that have revolutionized medicine since 2016 could also be used to treat common heart diseases, the...

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By Matthew Gault and Jordan Pearson, Vice | 01.12.2023

Nick Bostrom, an influential philosopher at the University of Oxford who has been called the “father” of the longtermism movement...

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By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 01.11.2023

Two prestigious campuses of the University of California are eyeing the creation of an entity that would cover the multimillion-dollar price tags...