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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 Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 12.05.2022

In a bold attempt to stop the progress of some cases of Alzheimer’s disease, a group of researchers is trying...

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By Nick Paul Taylor, Fierce Biotech | 12.05.2022

The FDA has set out its reasons for putting Verve Therapeutics’ high cholesterol gene editing therapy on hold. Officials want...

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By Emily Mullin, Wired | 12.05.2022

Some of Steven Pipe’s hemophilia patients consider themselves cured. In a trial Pipe led from 2018 to 2021, they received...

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By Daniella Silva, NBC News | 12.02.2022

A vote by San Francisco city supervisors in support of allowing police to use robots to kill people in emergency...

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By Megan Molteni, STAT | 11.29.2022

He Jiankui, the Chinese biophysicist who created the first gene-edited children, had been quiet since completing a three-year prison...

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By Kelsey Piper, Vox | 11.28.2022

In 2018 at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Google CEO Sundar Pichai had something to say: “AI is...

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By Amos Barshad, The Nation | 11.28.2022

In the fall of 2017, I sat in a windowless back room in O’Neill’s bar in the Maspeth neighborhood of...

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By Heather Radke, TIME | 11.26.2022

The first dressing room I remember was at Hudson’s, a Detroit-based department store where middle-class people in my town went...