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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 Nicola Davis, The Guardian | 07.04.2021

Plans to sequence the whole genome of every newborn in the UK in order to spot those at heightened risk...

By Jordan Smith, The Intercept | 07.03.2021

William Thompson, a professor emeritus of criminology and law at the University of California, Irvine, lives in University Hills...

By Claudia López Lloreda , STAT | 07.01.2021

As more people turn to in vitro fertilization for help with conceiving, a host of companies is capitalizing on the...

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By Nicole Wetsman, The Verge | 06.30.2021

The World Health Organization released a guidance document outlining six key principles for the ethical use of artificial intelligence in...

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By Sabrina Imbler, New York Times | 06.29.2021

When Krystal Tsosie introduces her genomics students to the concept of biocommercialism — the extraction of biological resources from Indigenous...

By Derek Lowe, Science Magazine | 06.29.2021

The huge success of the mRNA vaccination platform during the pandemic has set a lot of people to thinking about...

By Sylvie Corbet, AP | 06.29.2021

PARIS (AP) — France’s lower house of parliament on Tuesday definitively adopted a law that will allow single women and...

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By Jennifer Tsai, Slate | 06.27.2021

Jordan Crowley was born with only one shrunken kidney to clean his blood. As he gets older, his one kidney...