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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...

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By Staff Reporter, genomeweb | 04.20.2022

NEW YORK – The US Food and Drug Administration issued a safety communication on Tuesday, warning people that genetic noninvasive prenatal...

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By Azeen Ghorayshi, The New York Times | 04.20.2022

When they began their first two rounds of in vitro fertilization in 2015, Anna Dahlquist and her husband, Brian, took...

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By Safety Communication, FDA | 04.19.2022

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning patients and health care providers about the risks of false results...

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By GMWatch, GMWatch | 04.19.2022

Bayer AG is a chemical and pharmaceutical giant founded in Barmen, Germany in 1863 by Friedrich Bayer and his partner...

By Alan Goodman and Joseph L. Graves Jr., Sepiens | 04.14.2022

Our recent book, Racism, Not Race, tackles a big lie: The idea that human beings have biological races.

Biological...

Alex Stern
By Sean Brenner, UCLA Newsroom | 04.14.2022

Alexandra Minna Stern, currently the associate dean for the humanities at the University of Michigan’s College of Literature, Science, and...

Charles Murray
By Mitchell Thompson, Jacobin | 04.11.2022

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by Gage Skidmore on Flickr

When right-wing governments across Canada slash social programs and protections, they...

He Jiankui
By Ed Browne, Newsweek | 04.11.2022

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Chinese biophysicist He Jiankui, who shocked the medical world by claiming he had used...