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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 David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 08.24.2022

In a first in its 18-year history, the California stem cell agency has begun posting on its website a list...

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By Ellen Trachman, Above The Law | 08.24.2022

Earlier this month, California Representatives Adam Schiff and Judy Chu introduced the Equal Access to Reproductive Care Act, a...

an anti abortion ban protest
By David Dodge, The New York Times | 08.23.2022

During her 20-week pregnancy ultrasound last month, a woman living near the Utah-Idaho border learned she had a major rupture...

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By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 08.23.2022

The way we make babies could be about to change. Maybe. 

An embryo forms when sperm meets egg. But what...

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By Inmaculada De Melo-Martín, The Hastings Center Report | 08.22.2022

Advances in genome editing technologies allow scientists to add, remove, or alter genetic material at particular locations in the human genome...

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By Corinne Othenin-Girard, Philosophical Investigations | 08.22.2022

Imagine a world in which parents have the option to go to a geneticist to discuss the ‘genetic fix’ choices...

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By Britt H. Young, IEEE Spectrum | 08.21.2022

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In Jules Verne’s 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon, members...