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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 Carol Morello, Washington Post | 04.16.2020

Andrea Hoffmann’s mad dash to America began shortly after 2 a.m. on March 12 in Munich, when her husband roused her...

The shadows of prisoners on a wall
By Mab Segrest, Time | 04.16.2020

Toward the end of the 19th century, the superintendent of Georgia’s State Asylum, T.O. Powell, developed a theory to explain...

By Beth Greenfield, Yahoo | 04.13.2020

While the state of New York recently overturned a long-held ban on commercial surrogacy, and news about celebrities opting to...

By Katrina N. Jirik, Bill of Health | 04.13.2020

As health care resources grow increasingly scarce amid the COVID-19 pandemic, states, hospitals, and individuals are forced to make tough...

Child's crib
By Lia Tremblay, NPR | 04.09.2020

Seeing Thomas Hunt Morgan’s experiments with fruit flies in episode one of The Gene: An Intimate History took me...

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By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 04.08.2020

Nineteen scientists seeking to crush the coronavirus submitted applications this week for research grants from the California stem cell agency...

By Daniel Sarewitz, Issues in Science and Technology | 04.07.2020

Science is moving fast right now. The novel coronavirus pandemic has created the conditions for rapid knowledge generation: about the...

A protest against forced sterilization
By Dennis Ward, Face to Face | 04.07.2020

More than 100 Indigenous women in Canada have come forward with stories of forced or coerced sterilization and lawyer Alisa...