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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...

Donald Trump delivering a speech
By Dan Barry and Sonia A. Rao, The New York Times | 01.26.2026

Photo by Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States
of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Late last...

DNA wheel
By Mike McIntire, The New York Times | 01.24.2026

Genetic researchers were seeking children for an ambitious, federally funded project to track brain development — a study that they...

eugenics graphic
By Arthur Lazarus, MedPage Today | 01.23.2026

A growing body of contemporary research and reporting exposes how old ideas can find new life when repurposed within modern...

black and white photo of science equipment
By Roni Caryn Rabin, The New York Times | 01.22.2026

The National Institutes of Health said on Thursday it is ending support for all research that makes use of human...

DNA tree
By Shobita Parthasarathya, Science | 01.22.2026

These are extraordinarily challenging times for university researchers across the United States. After decades of government largess based on the ...

sickle cells in a blood sample
By Phil Galewitz, NPR | 01.20.2026

Serenity Cole enjoyed Christmas last month relaxing with her family near her St. Louis home, making crafts and visiting friends...

an rendering of people reproduced by generation on a cream background
By Evelina Johansson Wilén, Jacobin | 01.18.2026

In her book The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson describes pregnancy as an experience marked by a peculiar duality. On the...

biotech graphic
By Alondra Nelson, Science | 01.15.2026

One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in...