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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...

Surgical tools
By Gretchen Vogel , Science | 06.16.2022

Photo by Piron Guillaume on Unsplash

A surgeon who just a decade ago was celebrated around the globe as a...

AI
By Robin Donovan, NEO.LIFE | 06.16.2022

There’s a joke in Silicon Valley about how AI was developed: Privileged coders were building machine learning algorithms to replace...

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By Tess Owen, Vice | 06.15.2022

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America’s white nationalists are once again embracing the great outdoors. 

At first glance, it may...

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By Helen Smith, King 5 | 06.14.2022

Seattle-based company US Stemology must pay $500,000 in restitution to patients after offering unproven stem cell treatments they claimed could...

Stem Cells
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 06.14.2022

Editor’s note: The article below first appeared today on Capitol Weekly, the respected online California news and information service...

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By Oscar Williams, The New Statesman | 06.14.2022

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On 11 June, Blake Lemoine, a software engineer at Google, published transcripts of interviews...

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By Casey Crownhart, MIT Technology Review | 06.14.2022

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Plants are the original carbon capture factories—and a new research program aims to make...

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By Kudrat Wadhwa , The Verge | 06.14.2022

When Arianna Huhn experienced complications with her first pregnancy, she signed up for a clinical trial, one that required her...