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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 Carter Sherman, The Guardian | 08.23.2025

For Erica L and her husband, in-vitro fertilization was the “nuclear option”.

After two years of trying to conceive, Erica...

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By Vuyile Madwantsi, Independent Online | 08.22.2025

Imagine this: a future where parents could choose their baby’s eye colour, height or even intelligence.

Sounds like science fiction...

IVF
By Caroline Kitchener, The New York Times | 08.21.2025

Less than two weeks after an Alabama Supreme Court decision upended in vitro fertilization in the state and prompted a...

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By Holly Baxter, The Independent | 08.19.2025

In rural Pennsylvania, I’m hiking through the forest with Simone and Malcom Collins and discussing the executive order they wrote...

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By Ryan Cross, Endpoints News | 08.19.2025

Human eggs are incredibly rare cells. The ovary typically produces only 400 mature eggs across a woman’s life. But biologists...

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By Editors, Nature | 08.15.2025

A technology that played a key part in saving millions of lives during the COVID-19 pandemic1 should be feted...

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By Staff, National Women's Law Center | 08.13.2025

INTRODUCTION

Baby bonuses. Motherhood medals. Fertility tracking. You may have heard of these policy proposals as solutions from the Trump...

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By Molly Gray, Nuffield Council on Bioethics | 08.13.2025

Human embryo at about 8 weeks
by Anatomist90, CC3.0

With debate growing around whether the “14-day rule” on human...