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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...

Speeding ambulance
By James Tapper, The Guardian | 02.13.2021

People with learning disabilities have been given do not resuscitate orders during the second wave of the pandemic, in spite...

Human brain model
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 02.11.2021

In recent years, scientists have figured out how to grow blobs of hundreds of thousands of live human neurons that...

Human genome graphic
By Nature Staff, Nature | 02.10.2021

The first drafts of the human genome, published in Nature and Science 20 years ago, flung open the doors for...

Covid vaccine sticker
By Oliver C. Huang, Ms. | 02.10.2021

Since the COVID vaccine was first announced last year, the question of who should be prioritized to receive the vaccine...

Pregnant woman
By Caitlin Ashworth, The Thaiger | 02.07.2021

An alleged illegal transnational surrogacy ring, posed as a cleaning company, was busted by Thailand’s cybercrime police after surrogate mothers...

Human genome
By Kahryn Maxson Jones, et al., Science | 02.05.2021

Millions of people today have access to their personal genomic information. Direct-to-consumer services and integration with other “big data” increasingly...

Man in a wheelchair
By Elliot Kukla, New York Times | 02.04.2021

Photo by 张 学欢 on Unsplash

I am online with eight members of the family of my client, a nursing...

By Duana Fullwiley, Boston Review | 02.04.2021

Some of my ancestors might live just up the street. They are the people who own the black camper van...