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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...

Bird's eye view of three scissors that look the same, lined up on a white table. The two on the sides are slightly opened, while the middle is completely closed.
By Rebecca Robbins, STAT | 12.08.2017

CRISPR-Cas9 is complicated.

That’s why scientists, entrepreneurs, and journalists like me have spent the past few years reaching for metaphors...

Three people sit with their backs turned as they look at a massive wall art exhibition of black and white portraits of people's faces.
By Liberty Barnes and Jasmine Fledderjohann, The Conversation | 12.07.2017

Reproductive health is now seen as a basic human right. This includes the ability to have children. Large-scale population...

Rep. Trent Franks speaking with the media
By Mike DeBonis and Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Washington Post | 12.07.2017

Rep. Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican who is among the most conservative members of the House, said he would resign...

Microscopic image of red blood cells
By Marilynn Marchione, Associated Press | 12.07.2017

Gene therapy has freed 10 men from nearly all symptoms of hemophilia for a year so far, in a study...

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By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times | 12.07.2017

The revolutionary gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 is best known for helping scientists edit a strand of DNA more precisely and...

A group of women raning in age, with their heads covered by scarves,m arching in line in a building. These women are the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.
By Kelly McLaughlin, Daily Mail | 12.06.2017

An Argentine woman has been reunited with her relatives 40 years after she was stolen as a newborn by the...

A woman scientist is turned away from the camera, and faces a laboratory desk filled with equipment.
By Christie Aschwanden, FiveThirtyEight | 12.06.2017

The easiest way to undermine good science is to demand that it be made “sound.”

Science is being turned against...

Three burning white candles, in a dark room. Candle wax drips on each.
By Tess McClure, Vice | 12.05.2017

How a powerful group of New Zealanders attempted to wipe out 'mental defectives' and improve the white race.

Oh Mother...