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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 Daniel Boguslaw, The Intercept | 09.28.2022

As a rapidly advancing climate emergency turns the planet ever hotter, the Dallas-based biotechnology company Colossal Biosciences has a vision: “To...

books
By Dana Goldstein, The New York Times | 09.26.2022

The American history curriculum — if you can even call it that — is a slippery thing. Unlike many other...

pill bottles with pills spilled out in front
By Olivier J. Wouters, PhD; Lucas A. Berenbrok, PharmD, MS; Meiqi He, MS; et al, JAMA Network Open | 09.26.2022

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IMPORTANCE: Drug companies frequently claim that high prices are needed to recoup spending on research and development. If high...

A box containing used DNA sequencing chips
By Jedidiah Carlson, Science for the People | 09.26.2022

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There has been no shortage of controversies surrounding citation practices in research, and in May 2022, the scientific community...

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By Alison Motluk, The Globe and Mail | 09.23.2022

Earlier this year, I sat on a panel in a university seminar. Toward the end of the session, the subject...

eggs under a microscope
By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 09.23.2022

Claire Evans decided to freeze her eggs six years ago, when she was 36. She had just broken up with...

embryo
By Ellen Trachman, Above The Law | 09.21.2022

On August 22, 2022, Gov. Gavin Newsom of California signed AB-2495, which codifies certain embryo donation protocols into state...

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By Max Kozlov, Nature | 09.21.2022

“She has her mother’s eyes,” begins the advertisement, “but will she also inherit her breast cancer diagnosis?” The smooth voice...