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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...

gloved hands with a test tube of blood
By Daniel Navon, Scientific American | 05.05.2022

Imagine you are an expectant parent. Just a couple of months into your pregnancy, you opt for an easy genetic...

Virus
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 05.04.2022

The pig heart transplanted into an American patient earlier this year in a landmark operation carried a porcine virus that...

a woman holds up a sign protesting sterilization of women
By Crystal Qian and Elizabeth Cheng, The Epic [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 05.03.2022

"Women welfare rights activists holding signs protesting
proposed forced sterilization bill outside Tennessee courthouse, 1971,”
Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF)...

cancer cells
By Alice Klein, New Scientist | 05.03.2022

A tiny change in our DNA that occurred after we evolved away from other primates has made us more prone...

IVF photo
By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter, The Conversation | 05.03.2022

Photo by Pritamprajapati9 via wikimedia

The fertility industry generates approximately US$8 billion in revenue annually and plays a role in...

pregnant Ukrainian woman
By Susan Dominus, The New York Times Magazine | 05.03.2022

Photo by Astaken on Flickr

On Feb. 24, in the early hours of a cold, dark morning in Lviv, two...

a science building with a model of the human brain and skull made of transparent plastic
By Corinne Iozzio, Popular Science | 05.02.2022

Photo by jesse orrico on Unsplash

The work of creating science has been organized for centuries,” wrote Popular Science founder...

harvard university flag
By Cara J. Chang, Isabella B. Cho, Ella L. Jones, And Monique I. Vobecky, The Harvard Crimson | 05.02.2022

Photo by Manu Ros on Unsplash

Harvard’s campus is replete with the names of prominent historical figures who were essential...