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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 Adrienne Williams, Milagros Miceli, and Timnit Gebru, Noema | 10.13.2022

The public’s understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) is largely shaped by pop culture — by blockbuster movies like “The Terminator” and...

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By Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Technology Review | 10.13.2022

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In a workshop in Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Philip Nitschke—“Dr. Death” or “the Elon Musk of assisted suicide”...

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By Roy Furchgott, The New York Times | 10.12.2022

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Sometimes the barrier to medical advancement isn’t in the science. It’s the money.

In 2003 the first full sequencing...

Eugenics Marker by North Carolina Highway
By Zari Taylor, The Daily Tar Heel | 10.11.2022

It’s been nearly four months since the United States Supreme Court overturned the constitutional right to abortion, triggering restrictions in...

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By Robin McKie, The Guardian | 10.09.2022

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A flock of gene-edited sheep has been used by scientists to pinpoint a promising treatment for...

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By Taylor Lambert, CBC | 10.07.2022

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Sporting short-cropped hair and a neutral expression, the man in the picture stares straight ahead.

He's 25, but could...

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By Ximena Conde, The Philadelphia Inquirer | 10.06.2022

The City of Philadelphia issued an apology Thursday for the unethical experiments a University of Pennsylvania faculty member of 50...

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By Emily Mullin, Wired | 10.05.2022

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In July, an HIV-positive man became the first volunteer in a clinical trial aimed at using Crispr gene editing to...