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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 McKenzie Prillaman, Nature | 10.19.2022

Nature has published a special issue on racism and science, which includes this article.

Nadine Caron was horrified by...

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By Philip Ball, Nature | 10.19.2022

Nature has published a special issue on racism and science, which includes this article.

In February, the nineteenth-century naturalist...

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By Jedidiah Carlson, Brenna M. Henn, Dana R. Al-Hindi, and Sohini Ramachandran, Nature | 10.19.2022

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Nature has published a special issue on racism and science, which includes this article.

Earlier this year, we...

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By Alison Motluk, HeyReprotech | 10.18.2022

Lorne and Jaclyn Rembach could have had kids without any medical intervention. They were in their early thirties and fertile...

a person with long brown hair wearing a white lab coat and gloves operates a genome sequencing machine
By Kevin Doxzen, World Economic Forum | 10.18.2022

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Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) can and should play a leading role in dictating the future of the world’s...

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By Nirit Sandman Eriksson, The Times of Israel | 10.14.2022

For generations, the Yu family of Shanghai has suffered from type 2 diabetes. But this summer, as reported in the...

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By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 10.14.2022
Memorial at Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, Israel
By John Kendall Hawkins, CounterPunch | 10.14.2022

Ken Burns’s recently released film, The US and the Holocaust, is, as anticipated, an excellent addition to his growing...