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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 Nicolas Gutierrez C., The New Scientist | 06.29.2022

MORE than a billion people live in China, but researchers in the country have proposed the creation of a healthcare...

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By Sonia M. Suter, Slate | 06.29.2022

Much of the focus on the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade has rightly been directed at the...

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By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law | 06.29.2022

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Author’s note: the Olsen and Rooks opinions use the term “pre-embryo.”...

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By George Maliha, Ravi B. Parikh , Scientific American | 06.29.2022

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Who is responsible when AI harms someone?

A California jury may soon have to...

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By Abby Ohlheiser and Hana Kiros , The MIT Technology Review | 06.28.2022

In the hours and days after the US Supreme Court announced its ruling overturning the constitutional right to abortion, tech...

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By Ariana Eunjung Cha, The Washington Post | 06.28.2022

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It had been barely 80 minutes since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned ...

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By Gillian Rutherford, The University of Alberta | 06.27.2022

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Survivors of forced sterilization and coerced contraception from Canada, Peru and Indonesia will gather...

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By Michael Schulson, Undark Magazine | 06.27.2022

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IN MARCH 2021, three members of Congress sent a long letter to the director of...