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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 Nidhi Subbaraman, Nature | 11.16.2020

Voters in California have approved US$5.5 billion in funding for stem-cell and other medical research, granting a lifeline to a...

Dancing skeletons from 1916
By Judith Levine, n+1 | 11.13.2020

Back of the 50 centime emergency note issued in 1916 by the Merksplas Local Board of the National Assistance and...

Immigrant in detention center
By Katy Fallon, The Guardian | 11.11.2020

Robotic lie detector tests at European airports, eye scans for refugees and voice-imprinting software for use in asylum applications are...

By Katie Strick and Lucy Holden, Evening Standard | 11.10.2020

Alice Mann wishes she’d known the odds from the start. The marketing consultant was 36, single and heartbroken after the...

Genes and humans
By Erik Parens, Aeon | 11.10.2020

Over the past decade, economists, sociologists and psychologists have begun collaborating with geneticists to investigate how genomic differences among human...

By Jeffrey Mervis, Science | 11.09.2020

An advocate for using IQ tests to select who is allowed to legally immigrate to the United States has been...

By G. Owen Schaefer, Markus K. Labude, Yujia Zhu, Roger Sik-Yin Foo, Vicki Xafis, Trends in Biotechnology | 11.04.2020

The 2018 revelation of the birth of the first babies whose DNA had been edited shocked the world and was...

Hunting a Glyptodon
By Christa Lesté-Lasserre, NewScientist | 11.04.2020

Illustration of Hunters and Glyptodon by Heinrich Harder, 1920, via Wikimedia

A young woman buried with stone tools including spearheads...