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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...

row of books
By Bri Lee, The Age | 08.13.2021

The two most famous English dystopian novels — Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and George Orwell’s 1984 — battle like...

man doing gene therapy
By Editorial, Nature | 08.12.2021

More than 200 phase 2 and 3 gene therapy trials are currently underway, which could translate into up to 40...

group protesting abortion bans
By Destiny Lopez, Truthout | 08.12.2021

Congress just took a historic step forward for racial, economic and reproductive justice 45 years in the making. Every year...

pill bottles with pills spilled out in front
By Christina Jewett, Kaiser Health News | 08.12.2021

To several U.S. senators, it looked wasteful, even outrageous. Every year, taxpayers pay for at least $750 million worth of...

By Madeline Verniero, The Regulatory Review | 08.10.2021

As of 2018, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has resulted in the births of approximately 8 million babies. IVF has also ...

a man in a wheelchair on the sidewalk
By Neelam Bohra and AJ Willingham, CNN | 08.10.2021

Gabe Moses prefers to work his eight-hour shift for a call center while lying on his stomach, resting on a...

By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 08.09.2021

Only eight days after the California stem cell agency approved its most recent award for its $60 million battle against...

2 giraffes
By Cara Giaimo, The New York Times | 08.07.2021

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Giraffes seem above it all. They float over the...