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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...

Sydney Sweeney at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival
By Tania Fabo, Newsweek | 08.06.2025

"Sydney Sweeney" by Jay Dixit, CC 4.0

American Eagle came under fire recently for an ad campaign featuring...

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By Rob Stein, NPR [cites CGS' Katie Hasson] | 08.06.2025

A Chinese scientist horrified the world in 2018 when he revealed he had secretly engineered the birth of the world's...

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By Sayantani DasGupta, MedPage Today | 08.05.2025

It's just a jeans ad.

It's not that deep.

It's just social media outrage.

Should physicians care about the recent...

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By Katherine Long, Ben Foldy and Sara Randazzo, The Wall Street Journal | 08.05.2025

ARCADIA, Calif.—In early May, after a baby was hospitalized with possible signs of child abuse, police showed up at a...

A robot contemplating code
By Cade Metz, The New York Times | 08.04.2025

Image by Mike MacKenzie / CC BY 2.0

In downtown Berkeley, an old hotel has become a temple to the...

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By Ewen Callaway, Nature | 08.04.2025

For months, researchers in a laboratory in Dallas, Texas, worked in secrecy, culturing grey-wolf blood cells and altering the DNA...

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By Riley Beggin and Jeff Stein, The Washington Post | 08.03.2025

The White House does not plan to require health insurers to provide coverage for in vitro fertilization services, two people...

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By Annika Inampudi, Science | 08.01.2025

In June, Sara* received a message asking whether she wanted to continue to participate in a massive, multicenter research project...