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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...

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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 Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 01.11.2023

I met the entrepreneur Martine Rothblatt for the first time at a meeting at West Point in 2015 that was...

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By Liz Essley Whyte, The Wall Street Journal | 01.10.2023

The Food and Drug Administration is pressing pause on drug-company testing of experimental medicines more often, a side effect of...

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By Heather Tal Murphy, Slate | 01.10.2023

Around 4 a.m. on Nov. 13, a masked man broke into a house about a mile from the University of...

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By Emily Sohn, Nature | 01.09.2023

Each day, around 350 people in the United States die from lung cancer. Many of those deaths could be prevented...

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By Maria Botcharova, PET | 01.09.2023

Russian troops mobilised to fight in Ukraine will be offered sperm freezing and fertility treatment, it has been announced.

Increasing...

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By Miranda Bryant, The Guardian | 01.08.2023

The UK’s fertility regulator has called for an urgent update to the law around egg freezing as rapidly growing numbers...

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By Timothy Snyder, Thinking about... | 01.08.2023

When Vladimir Putin says that Russians and Ukrainians are one people, what he means is that Ukrainians will agree when...

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By Adam Beam and The Associated Press, Fortune | 01.04.2023

About 600 people alive today can’t have children because California’s government sterilized them either against their will or without their...