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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 Riley Black, Discover | 03.09.2020

The last mammoths were in trouble. Isolated on Wrangel Island, a spit of land off the coast of Siberia, the...

close-up photo of a researcher wearing a mask
By Angela Saini, Nature | 03.09.2020

One of the world’s leading universities — University College London (UCL) — has completed an inquiry into its support for...

women in hospital bed
By Francis S Collins, Fortune | 03.08.2020

The year was 1984. I was finishing my medical genetics training at Yale, working on the molecular genetics of disorders...

CRISPR in a vial
By The Associated Press, The New York Times | 03.04.2020

Scientists say they have used the gene editing tool CRISPR inside someone's body for the first time, a new frontier...

Vial of DNA labeled DNA Test
By Libby Copeland, TIME | 03.02.2020

“Have you found an article of clothing with a suspicious stain?” asks the website of one Florida-based company called All...

a strand of DNA
By Michael Eisenstein, Nature | 02.24.2020

Leslie Mitchell had no intention of doing a postdoc. After completing her PhD at the University of Ottawa, she had...

sperm swimming to an egg
By Karen Weingarten, Nursing Clio | 02.24.2020

In 1974, a Los Angeles Times staff writer interviewed Dr. Donald Adler, a Beverly Hills gynecologist who ran a sperm...

eggs under a microscope
By Alison Motluk, UNDARK | 02.24.2020

In the summer of 2017, Julie Johnson saw a Facebook ad about egg donation. Somebody out there — an older...