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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...

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"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 Laura DeFrancesco, Nature Biotechnology | 03.17.2026

The first gene editors designed to fix genetic lesions in mutation-agnostic ways are poised to enter the clinic. Tessera Therapeutics...

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By Judd Boaz and Elise Kinsella, ABC News | 03.17.2026

Fertility experts warn further life-changing historical errors could be discovered in Australia's IVF industry, as DNA testing becomes more widespread...

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By Paula Siverino Bavio, BioNews | 03.16.2026

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A recent surrogacy case in Peru had...

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By Margaret R. Eby, Los Angeles Review of Books | 03.15.2026

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By Ritsuko Kawai, Wired | 03.14.2026

On March 6, Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare officially granted conditional and time-limited marketing authorization to two regenerative medical...

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By Alexandra Marquez, NBC News | 03.13.2026

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President Donald Trump on Thursday blamed “the...

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By Carolyn Riley Chapman and Nirvan Bhatia, Hastings Bioethics Forum | 03.12.2026

Last year, researchers saved an infant named KJ from a life-threatening rare metabolic disorder using a customized gene editing therapy...

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By Darren Incorvaia, Fierce Biotech | 03.11.2026

 

new method for safely inserting large chunks of DNA into genomes has now measured up in mice, potentially...