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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...

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By Jessica Riskin, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 03.24.2026

 

This is the second part of the 14th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by...

DNA in a magnifying glass
By Ryan Cross, Endpoints News | 03.24.2026

Cathy Tie has an audacity more typical of a tech startup founder than a biotech executive. She dropped out of...

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By Jessica Riskin, Los Ángeles Review of Books | 03.23.2026

This is the first part of the 14th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading...

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By Emily Mullin, Wired | 03.23.2026

As the Trump administration phases out the use of animal experimentation across the federal government, a biotech startup has a...

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By Charles Pulliam-Moore, The Verge | 03.21.2026

Like many people, director Valerie Veatch was intrigued when OpenAI first released its Sora text-to-video generative AI model to the...

"save medicaid" sign at a protest at the capital
By O. Rose Broderick, Stat | 03.18.2026

The Trump administration has zeroed in on its next target: ending health care fraud.

President Trump announced Monday the creation...

an image of a child's arm with a bandaid after having received a vaccination
By Garrett Owen, Salon | 03.18.2026

Key parts of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s controversial vaccine overhaul were blocked on...