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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...

Gene therapy
By Rob Stein, NPR | 07.20.2020

Jack Grehan, who was born with hemophilia, used to inject himself every couple of days with a protein he needs...

Voter Ballot
By Ben Trefny, KALW News [cites CGS] | 07.20.2020

In 2004, Californians approved a $3 bllion bond to fund stem cell research. That money has been pretty much used up...

Sleeping Baby
By Lizzie Widdicombe, The New Yorker | 07.20.2020

Ben and Abbie Rosenberg’s relationship got its start the old-fashioned way. Not their initial meeting—that happened on Jdate, a Jewish...

Holding a phone
By Natasha Singer, The New York Times | 07.20.2020

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When Google and Apple announced plans in April for free softwareto help alert people...

Artist's impression of data
By Sara Morrison , Vox | 07.16.2020

In the earlier days of the Covid-19 pandemic, many of the country’s public health departments, still reliant on fax...

Baby's hand in an adult's
By Peter McGuire, TheJournal.ie | 07.14.2020

SHORTLY AFTER THE marriage equality referendum passed in 2015, Ranae von Meding became pregnant with her first child.

“We used...

Frankie Cordoba in a wheelchair
By Chelsey Cox , USA Today | 07.14.2020

July marks the 30th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and Disability Pride Month. But that's not why people...

A remote control
By Alexis Soloski, The New York Times | 07.13.2020

Ready for a thought experiment?

Imagine a society that has solved the problems of overpopulation and environmental collapse. Crime is...