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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...

a green and yellow graphic with three babies increasing across the screen
By Zusha Elinson, The Wall Street Journal | 08.12.2025

BERKELEY, Calif.—Tsvi Benson-Tilsen, a mathematician, spent seven years researching how to keep an advanced form of artificial intelligence from destroying...

An early embryo
By Nicky Hudson, The Conversation | 08.12.2025

A baby born in the US has made headlines for a surprising reason: they came from an embryo that had...

British Parliament photo
By Harry Hunter, PET BioNews | 08.11.2025

The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology has announced plans to publish a POSTnote and called for submissions on surrogacy...

UK and US flags
By Natalie Gamble, PET BioNews | 08.11.2025

UK and US flags, by Tvabutzku1234, CC0 1.0

President Trump has signed an Executive Order to end birthright citizenship...

Protesting Against Monsanto and GMOs
By Staff, GMWatch | 08.10.2025

Protesting Against Monsanto and GMOs
by William Murphy, CC2.0

GMWatch has published a series of interviews with the late scientist Dr...

IVF graphic
By Aria Bendix, NBC News | 08.08.2025

President Donald Trump has nicknamed himself “the fertilization president,” but six months after he formally pledged to expand...

stem cells graphic
By Gregory Laub and Hannah Glaser, MedPage Today | 08.07.2025

In this MedPage Today interview, Leigh Turner, PhD, a professor of health policy and bioethics at the University of California...

Drawing of mitochondrial DNA
By Katherine Drabiak, Journal of Medical Ethics Forum | 08.07.2025

Adapted from Mitochondrial DNA at
National Human Genome Research Institute

Recently, media outlets around the world have been reporting on...