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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.

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"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 Julia Métraux, Mother Jones | 02.10.2026

Why was Jeffrey Epstein obsessed with genes? In the latest tranche of Epstein records and emails made available by the Department...

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By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 02.10.2026

Touchy issues involving accusations that California’s $12 billion gene and stem cell research agency is pushing aside “good science” in...

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By Emese Ilyés, Common Dreams | 02.10.2026

When Bad Bunny took the Super Bowl halftime stage, he performed one of the most beautiful examples of refusal I...

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By Kiana Jackson and Shannon Stubblefield, New Disabled South | 02.09.2026

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This report documents a deliberate assault on disabled people in...

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By Jonathan D. Moreno, Hastings Center Bioethics Forum | 02.09.2026

When I began to write a book about bioethics and the rules-based international order, the idea that the world was...

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By Teddy Rosenbluth, The New York Times | 02.09.2026

Dr. Mehmet Oz has urged Americans to get vaccinated against measles, one of the strongest endorsements of the vaccine yet...

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By Ava Kofman, The New Yorker | 02.09.2026

1. The Surrogates

In the delicate jargon of the fertility industry, a woman who carries a child for someone else...

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By Alex Polyakov, The Conversation | 02.09.2026

Prospective parents are being marketed genetic tests that claim to predict which IVF embryo will grow into the tallest, smartest...