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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...

By Editors, Hastings Center Report | 05.10.2021

Genetic tests claiming to predict people’s intellectual aptitudes or how much education they are likely to get are readily available...

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By Douglas Perry, The Oregonian | 05.10.2021

Bethenia Owens-Adair overcame a wave of hardships early in her life to earn a medical degree and become one of...

Trump on sign in bicycle basket
By Lester Golden, Medium | 05.10.2021

When people repeatedly announce who they are in their own words, listen. The core of Nazi ideology is racial darwinism...

dna in syringe
By Wynne Parry, Philadelphia | 05.08.2021

Think back to last spring. (You probably don’t want to, but humor me.) Those early months of the coronavirus pandemic...

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By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 05.07.2021

At the age of 38, Katherine Wilemon suffered a heart attack as she carried a ceramic pot into her backyard...

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By Hannah Thomasy, NEO.LIFE | 05.06.2021

On December 10, 2020, Elizabeth Ann made history just by being born. She isn’t a British royal, an American married...

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By Diana Kwon, Nature | 05.05.2021

Two pharmaceutical companies have halted clinical trials of gene-targeting therapies for Huntington’s disease (HD), following the drugs’ disappointing performance.

Researchers...

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By Ellen Trachman, Above the Law | 05.05.2021

Photo by Zach Lucero on Unsplash

On April 21, 2021, a federal judge entered a sentence of jail time and...