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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...

three babies with arrows designating some as higher up than others
By Margaux MacColl, The San Francisco Standard | 09.17.2025

Designer babies are coming soon to an IVF clinic near you. 

Nucleus Genomics, founded by Kian Sadeghi in 2020, when...

Gelsinger
By Tia Ghose, Live Science | 09.16.2025

Twenty-six years ago today, on Sept. 17, a teenager who had received an experimental gene therapy died. His death led...

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By Peter de Kruijff, ABC News | 09.16.2025

Do you wonder where your meat comes from? Maybe it is organic, wild harvested, or farmed.

Or perhaps it was...

IVF graphic interrupted partway
By Jackie Davalos, Bloomberg | 09.15.2025

Kindbody, one of the largest fertility companies in the US, sought to disrupt egg freezing and IVF by combining spa...

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By Dorian Accoe, BioNews | 09.15.2025

Many fertility clinics and gamete banks exclude candidate donors who are neurodivergent or have a family history of neurodivergence. Neurodivergence...

IVF
By Georgia Brice, BioNews | 09.15.2025

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) recommends three NHS-funded IVF cycles for those eligible under 40...

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By Aaron Ginn, The Washington Post | 09.12.2025

Earlier this year, I had dinner in D.C. with Jensen Huang, the president and chief executive of Nvidia. At...

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By Kevin Roose, The New York Times | 09.12.2025

The first time I met Eliezer Yudkowsky, he said there was a 99.5 percent chance that A.I. was going to...