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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...

Native american woman
By Lizzie Wade, Science | 09.24.2020

Abigail Echo-Hawk can’t even count how many times she’s been called a troublemaker. It’s happened at conferences, workshops, and even...

Sad woman
By Adolfo Flores, Hamed Aleaziz, BuzzFeed News | 09.24.2020

Amanda thought she was going to the doctor for a simple procedure to drain an ovarian cyst, but when she...

The Golden Gate Bridge
By Editorial Board, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.24.2020

Like MySpace, the Martha Stewart prosecution and American democratic norms, spending gobs of state money on stem cell research might...

Sterilization states
By Dr. Cynthia R. Greenlee, Zora | 09.23.2020

Charmaine Fuller Cooper was outraged — but not surprised — when she heard recent allegations that a Georgia detention center...

Troubled black woman
By Thelma Annan, Popsugar | 09.23.2020

Last week, Dawn Wooten became the latest whistleblower regarding the treatment of migrants inside US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...

Two pigs behind fence
By Coco Feng, South China Morning Post | 09.23.2020

A team led by Chinese researchers say they have succeeding in producing genetically modified pigs with cells that are more...

By Eloise Drane, Newsweek | 09.23.2020

I'm married with five children from a blended family with my current husband, and I've been a gestational surrogate three...

Standardized test
By Georgia Rosenberg, The Stanford Daily | 09.22.2020

As wealthy parents rush to hire teachers for private instruction while those with limited financial barriers choose to take time...