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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...

kidney transplant
By Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 07.23.2026

When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from...

DNA dissolving
By Brendan Borrell, Science | 07.23.2026

The young girl tugged on her mother’s hand as they pressed through the doors of the hospital in Shanghai. She...

IVF
By Julianne McShane, MS NOW | 07.23.2026

With their sights set on winning control of Congress in November, Senate Democrats are reviving a legislative effort to dramatically...

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By Gina Kolata , The New York Times | 07.21.2026

Without fail, David Liu of the Broad Institute gets at least 20 messages every week from desperate parents. Their child...

DNA strand
By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, The New York Times | 07.20.2026

The National Institutes of Health recently announced a remarkable achievement: the world’s largest database of human genomes, a repository of...

IVF graphic
By Oscar Lopez, The Guardian | 07.19.2026

Diogo Amaro met his future husband, Loup, in Paris and from the first date, he made one thing clear: he...

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By Tory Shepherd, The Guardian | 07.17.2026

Over eight years, Ethan and his wife went through nine rounds of IVF in Melbourne.

They travelled to Spain for...

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By Risa Cromer, The Conversation | 07.17.2026

About 100,000 babies were born through in vitro fertilization in 2024, according to the most recent U.S. data. But IVF...