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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...

test tubes holding sperm samples in a sperm bank
By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 04.25.2022

After years of public criticism, the Food and Drug Administration in 2020 relaxed its rules regarding blood donation by men...

By Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed | 04.25.2022

Emory University is removing the names of two men with ties to eugenics and slavery, dropping them from a research...

colorized sperm on a black background
By Naomi Cahn and Sonia Suter, The Hill | 04.23.2022

Colorado Senate president Steve Fenberg has just introduced groundbreaking legislation on the rights of donor conception. Although focused on Colorado...

By Walter G. Johnson and Diana M. Bowman, STAT News | 04.22.2022

Australia has become the second country in the world to explicitly authorize and regulate mitochondrial replacement therapies, offering hope to...

By Joseph Goldstein, The New York Times | 04.22.2022

Last month, a federal judge in New Jersey considered the plea of a man who claimed his kidney problems made...

By Donor Conceived Council, DCC USA | 04.22.2022

In March, 2022, U.S. Donor Conceived Council (DCC) surveyed sperm bank websites across the United States to analyze their publicly...

By Conor Murray and Pia Singh, The Daily Pennsylvanian | 04.21.2022

Top University officials allegedly manipulated a Perelman School of Medicine investigation into years of workplace abuse allegations within the Gene...

Cover of the book titled The Genetic Lottery
By M.W. Feldman and Jessica Riskin, The New York Review | 04.21.2022

You must know the parable about the frog that sits in a pot of water being gradually heated, allowing itself...