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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 George Yancy, Truthout | 01.03.2023

As I’ve continued to think more about the phenomenon of “disability,” I am compelled to rethink “ableism” beyond a hegemonic...

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By Ruxandra Guidi, Sierra | 12.27.2022

THE CIELO VISTA WALMART Supercenter in El Paso, Texas, is located east of downtown, near most of the city's Mexican...

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By Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR | 12.23.2022

When Kathleen Aukstikalnis was expecting her first baby, she turned to a common prenatal test that a lot of her...

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By Dan Robitzski, The Scientist | 12.22.2022

Scientists have developed a new line of stem cells—all derived from the same person—that can be used to study sex...

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By Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times | 12.22.2022

UC San Francisco has issued a public apology after conducting an investigation into experiments performed by two faculty members in...

He Jiankui
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 12.21.2022

In November 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he announced, first on YouTube and then at an international...

Henrietta Lacks
By Derrick Bryson Taylor, The New York Times | 12.20.2022

A life-size bronze statue of Henrietta Lacks, the woman whose cancer cells were taken without her consent and were used...

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By Blair Sowry, PET | 12.19.2022

The European Commission, the European Union (EU) executive responsible for proposing legislation, has proposed new regulation to allow parenthood rights...