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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.

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"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 Nina Agrawal, The New York Times | 07.16.2026

Ethan White first noticed something was wrong at drum practice. A snare drummer in the University of Michigan marching band...

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By Darren Incorvaia, Fierce Biotech | 07.16.2026

Jennifer Doudna, Ph.D., the Nobel Laureate best known for co-inventing the CRISPR system that has become the foundation for gene...

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By Emily Packard Dawson and Lainie Friedman Ross , The Hastings Center for Bioethics | 07.16.2026

Major news outlets recently reported – based on a bioRxiv preprint – that scientists had edited genes in human embryos...

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By Abigail Ruhman , Association of Health Care Journalists | 07.10.2026

The words reporters use and how publications tell stories can play a significant role in challenging ideas that are harmful...

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By Carissa Wong, New Scientist | 07.08.2026

Healthy lambs have been born via an experimental form of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) that coaxes highly immature eggs to...

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By Roxanne Khamsi, The Atlantic | 07.07.2026

When Ludivine Verboogen and Romain Alderweireldt’s third child was born in Belgium in late 2015, they marveled at his long...

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By Sarah Norcross, Sandy Starr, Amanda Cooney, and Anneliese Burton, BioNews | 07.06.2026

Our report Fertility, Embryo Research and Genome Editing: Public Attitudes in Europe explores public attitudes to fertility treatment, embryo research, ...

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By Editorial Staff, The Guardian | 07.05.2026

Ever since Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology emerged in the early 2010s, ethical questions around genetically altered humans, so-called designer babies, have...