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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 Matthew Ormseth and Summer Lin, Los Angeles Times | 10.02.2025

The father of some 22 children discovered by Arcadia police in May also owns a property in El Monte where...

IVF
By Paige Cockburn, ABC News | 10.02.2025

On Thursday afternoon, NSW Health announced a temporary exemption to the donor limit would come into effect in mid to...

IVF
By Elizabeth Dwoskin and Zoeann Murphy, The Washington Post | 10.01.2025

MEXICO CITY — When she walked into an IVF clinic in June, Alin Quintana knew it would be the last time she...

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By Daniel Hildebrand, The Humanist | 10.01.2025

When most people hear the word eugenics, they think of dusty history textbooks and black-and-white photographs: forced sterilizations in the...

eggs
By Rob Stein, NPR | 09.30.2025

Scientists have created human eggs containing genes from adult skin cells, a step that someday could help women who are...

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By Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 09.29.2025

According to an article on BBC News, the Quadram Institute in Norwich is recruiting 76 people with low vitamin...

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By Aleks Krotoski, The Guardian | 09.28.2025

Imagine you’re the leader of one of the most powerful nations in the world. You have everything you could...

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By Jay S. Kaufman, Los Angeles Review of Books | 09.27.2025

This is the 10th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring...