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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...

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By Jared Whitlock, Endpoints News | 10.09.2025

When Nirnay Murthy learned about a treatment for his toddler son’s rare condition, relief quickly gave way to disappointment.

A...

DNA strand
By Megan Molteni and Anil Oza, STAT | 10.07.2025

For two years, a panel of scientific experts, clinicians, and patient advocates had been hammering out ways to increase community...

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By Deni Ellis Béchard, The Washington Post | 10.07.2025

In 1949, when John Gurdon was a 16-year-old boarding school student at Eton College in England, his teacher described his...

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By Megan Mineiro and Caroline Kitchener, The New York Times | 10.05.2025

Kathleen Whipple and her husband had dreamed of a big family, but struggled to conceive.

Upon his return from an...

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By Shoumita Dasgupta, STAT | 10.03.2025

President Trump and health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have characterized the rise in autism diagnoses in recent years as...

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By Emma Belmonte, ChinaFile | 10.03.2025

On the popular Chinese social media platform Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, an account called “Georgia Notes” (@格鲁吉亚小纸条...

IVF
By Karin Hammarberg, Alex Polyakov, Catherine Mills, and Karinne Ludlow, The Conversation | 10.03.2025

Reports of several cases of embryo and sperm mix-ups have put the Australian fertility industry in the spotlight for all...

DNA
By Jessica Mouzo, El País | 10.03.2025

DNA is the molecule of life: this double-helix structure, present in every cell in the body and organized into fragments...