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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 Alana Cattapan, Vanessa Gruben, Stefanie Carsley and Angela Cameron, CTV News | 12.14.2021

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Last month, the Quebec government introduced Bill 2, which aims to comprehensively amend Quebec’s...

Uyghurs in an internment camp
By Mara Hvistendahl, The Intercept | 12.13.2021

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A highly regarded scientific journal has retracted a paper based on...

Science article on eugenics 1921
By Rob DeSalle, Natural History | 12.11.2021

One hundred years ago, the Second International Congress of Eugenics was held from September 22-28, 1921, at the American Museum...

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By Marius Turda, Challenging Pseudoscience (Apple Podcast) | 12.10.2021

This episode is a recording of a talk given by medical historian, Marius Turda, at the Royal Institution in September...

By Daniel M Davis, The Guardian | 12.06.2021

While at the till in a clothes shop, Ruby received a call. She recognised the woman’s voice as the genetic...

Weaving genes together
By Dave King, Red Pepper | 12.06.2021

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In late 2018, when He Jiankui announced that he had created...

PGD selection
By Jamie Talan, The Washington Post | 12.04.2021

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In vitro fertilization (IVF), widely known as a way...

Francis Collins
By Nidhi Subbaraman, Nature | 12.03.2021

This month, Francis Collins will step down as director of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) after more than...