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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 Libby Dowsett, The Oregonian/OregonLive | 04.05.2020

First-time gestational surrogate Shandi Phelps realized her life was about to take a bizarre turn when President Donald Trump announced...

By Orlando Crowcroft & Marta Rodriguez Martinez, Euronews | 04.04.2020

This is not the way that Briton Nadene Ghouri had planned to spend the first six weeks of motherhood.

Holed...

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By Alice Wong, Vox | 04.04.2020

It is a strange time to be alive as an Asian American disabled person who uses a ventilator. The coronavirus...

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By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 04.03.2020

The campaign to save California's stem cell research program from financial extinction is making an "unprecedented," electronic sprint to gather...

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By Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic | 04.03.2020

Many Americans are anxious about contracting the novel coronavirus. Daniel Florio is absolutely terrified.

The 50-year-old lawyer from Maplewood, New...

By Matt Tracy, Gay City News | 04.02.2020

A protracted battle over the future of compensated gestational surrogacy in New York was resolved on April 2 when state...

By Katie Thomas, New York Times | 04.02.2020

An experimental stem cell therapy derived from human placentas will begin early testing in patients with the coronavirus, a New...

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By David Dodge, New York Times | 04.01.2020

Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has upended life for those who are or hope to become...