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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...

Twin's eyes
By Katherine J. Wu, The New York Times | 01.18.2021

After 35 years of sharing everything from a love for jazz music to tubes of lip gloss, twins Kimberly and...

Biden on newspaper
By Bill Barrow, Seth Borenstein, AP | 01.18.2021

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — In a dig at the outgoing Trump administration, President-elect Joe Biden introduced his slate of scientific...

BLM protest
By Beth Baker , BioScience | 01.15.2021

Researchers grapple with health disparities, systemic racism.

In 2020, a confluence of events brought the ongoing legacy of structural racism...

By Staff, GenomeWeb | 01.14.2021

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded a contract worth up to $36.7 million over four years to...

Illuminated keyboard
By Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Technology Review | 01.12.2021

Many AIs that appear to understand language and that score better than humans on a common set of comprehension...

Pregnant woman
By Alice Clarke, The Sydney Morning Herald | 01.11.2021

A little under five years ago, my wife and I started going through the IVF process to have a child...

Title screen of film
By DW Staff, DW | 01.09.2021

Josef Kaiser was 16 years old in 1937 when two Gestapo secret police picked him up and took him to the...

Twin babies
By Christina Larson, AP | 01.07.2021

WASHINGTON (AP) — If you’re an identical twin who’s always resisted being called a clone of your sibling, scientists say...