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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 Nick Paul Taylor, Fierce Biotech | 01.09.2026

Menlo Ventures has made a $16 million bet that the “baby KJ” custom CRISPR therapy success story is...

DNA in test tubes
By Danny Finley, Bill of Health | 01.08.2026

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has a unique funding structure among federal scientific and health agencies. The

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By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 01.08.2026

Scientists claim to have “rejuvenated” human eggs for the first time in an advance that they predict could revolutionise IVF...

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By David Cox, Wired | 01.05.2026

As he addressed an audience of virologists from China, Australia, and Singapore at October’s Pandemic Research Alliance Symposium, Wei Zhao...

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By Staff, ScienceDaily | 01.05.2026

Scientists at UNSW Sydney have developed a new form of CRISPR technology that could make gene therapy safer while also

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By Katherine Long, The Wall Street Journal | 12.27.2025

Nia Trent-Wilson owes $182,889.63 in medical bills for a baby that wasn’t hers.

In late 2021, she agreed to act...

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By Sam Schechner, Daria Matviichuk, and Thomas Grove, The Wall Street Journal | 12.22.2025

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Attractive women started showing up in...

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By Sarah A. Topol, The New York Times Magazine | 12.14.2025

The women in House 3 rarely had a chance to speak to the women in House 5, but when they...