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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 Nina de Groot, Journal of Medical Ethics blog | 06.09.2020

A couple of years ago, during my studies, I assisted with a surgical removal of a benign uterine tumor at...

By Rori Rohlfs, Genes to Genomes | 06.08.2020

I was a fourth-year graduate student when I found myself asking a librarian for the archives of the journal The...

By Jay Peters, The Verge | 06.08.2020

IBM will no longer offer general purpose facial recognition or analysis software, IBM CEO Arvind Krishna said in a letter...

By Annah Fromberg, ABC [Australia] | 06.06.2020

Lottie Frohmader, 17, has always known she was conceived with sperm from a donor.

"I don't think there was a...

Police in Phoenix, ready for protestors
By Osagie Obasogie, The Washington Post | 06.05.2020

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Pandemics are often thought to be unforeseeable acts of God that emerge suddenly to...

By Winston Morgan, The Guardian | 06.04.2020

From the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been an attempt to use science to explain the disproportionate impact...

By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 06.03.2020

Why do some people infected with the coronavirus suffer only mild symptoms, while others become deathly ill?

Geneticists have been...

Genomic data
By Erik Parens, Scientific American | 06.01.2020

Since its birth 30 years ago, proponents of the Human Genome Project have promised that genetics research would yield untold...