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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 Alice Wong, Disability Visibility Project | 08.17.2020

On August 6, 2020 I gave a talk, “The Last Disabled Oracle,” as part of Assembly for the Future, a...

Anti abortion protest
By Becca Andrews, Mother Jones | 08.14.2020

The argument seemed reasonable in theory: “We are pleased that our state values life no matter an individual’s potential disability...

By Sarah Katz, Discover | 08.11.2020

Deaf Power Poster

As someone who was born deaf, I’m concerned about the latest application of a gene-editing tool called...

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By Editorial, The Bakersfield Californian | 08.08.2020

The November general election ballot includes two statewide propositions that address health issues. Proposition 14 asks voters to extend the...

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By Kevin Truong, Vice | 08.07.2020

The genealogy company Ancestry has been acquired by investment firm Blackstone for $4.7 billion, changing ownership of the company and...

Regular and golden rice
By The Stop Golden Rice Network, Independent Science News | 08.07.2020

The push for corporate-led solutions to hunger and malnutrition is alarming. In particular, Golden Rice is now being proposed as...

Carl Linnaeus
By Brian Lovett, Undark | 08.06.2020

WE ARE LIVING through a period of cultural upheaval. Around the world, statues of iconic men who held racist beliefs and...

American Covid-19 lockdown
By Ed Yong, The Atlantic | 08.04.2020

How did it come to this? A virus a thousand times smaller than a dust mote has humbled and humiliated the...