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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...

influenza virus
By Mara Hvistendahl, The Intercept | 11.01.2022

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AT THE MOMENT that the ferret bit him, the researcher was smack in the middle of...

gray mouse
By Mara Hvistendahl, The Intercept | 11.01.2022

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THE GRADUATE STUDENT was alone in the lab on a Saturday, handling a mouse infected...

sleeping baby
By Erika Check Hayden, The New York Times | 10.26.2022

Weeks after Valeria Schenkel took an experimental drug named after her, the daily seizures that had afflicted her from birth...

a painting of skulls stacked on top of each other
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 10.25.2022

Paul Cézanne, Pyramide de crânes, via Wikipedia

A little over 15 years ago, scientists at Kyoto University in Japan made...

Black man
By Amber Ferguson, The Washington Post | 10.20.2022

TreVaughn Roach-Carter had been waiting to donate his sperm for nearly two years in early 2020 when he visited the...

a black mother holding her baby
By Amber Ferguson, The Washington Post | 10.20.2022

Every night a little after 1 a.m., following her shift as a guard at a women’s prison, Reese Brooks...

an IVF embryo
By Andrew Joseph, STAT | 10.19.2022

When Sarka Lisonkova and her colleagues set out to study disparities in the birth outcomes of people who’ve used methods...

A person in an electric wheelchair
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.19.2022

For a quarter of a century, Dr. Lisa Iezzoni, a professor of medicine at Harvard, has heard the same story...