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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 Brittany Luse, Corey Antonio Rose, Neena Pathak, NPR | 02.27.2026

Who gets to be "hot" in America? And, at what cost?

Some young men are pushing beauty boundaries with guidance...

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By Émile P. Torres, Truthdig | 02.26.2026

It’s well known that Jeffrey Epstein was a super-wealthy pedophile with an extraordinary network of powerful friends: tech billionaires, politicians...

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By Jenn White, NPR | 02.26.2026

Millions of people struggle to become pregnant in the U.S. And in 2024, fertility rates reached a new low, according...

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By Zachary Brennan, Endpoints News | 02.23.2026

The FDA is spelling out the details of a new pathway to help speed personalized cell and gene therapies to...

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By Ilyse Hogue, The Bulwark | 02.20.2026

Since I started working to understand the radicalization of young men, I’ve gotten asked the same question everywhere I go...

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By Amy Feldman, Forbes | 02.17.2026

"Jennifer Doudna" by Duncan Hull for the Royal Society via Wikimedia Commons licensed under CC by SA 3.0

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By Vittoria Vardanega, SWI swissinfo.ch | 02.13.2026

In recent years, sperm donation has produced family trees of unprecedented size, stretching across countries and, in some cases, continents...

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By Scott Solomon, The MIT Press Reader | 02.12.2026

Chris Mason is a man in a hurry.

“Sometimes walking from the subway to the lab takes too long...