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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 team of surgeons are performs surgery. The patient is not visible.
By Wang Lianzhang, Sixth Tone | 04.27.2017

Fertility problems and lack of donors continue to prop up black market.

A 17-year-old girl sold more than 20 of...

Bird's eye view of a cutting board, displaying vegetables and an uncooked salmon. A bowl of peppercorns are plated to its side.
By Tess Doezema, Slate | 04.26.2017

The debate over a fish shows that scientists can be too quick to dismiss the public’s concerns.

“Keep Frankenfish off...

A US-100 dollar bill and 100 euro are tied by a rope together.
By Paul Basken , Chronicle of Higher Education | 04.25.2017

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are toughening their financial conflict-of-interest policies after publishing reports that some critics...

Female hospital patient lays in bed appearing asleep. Beside her is a TV.
By Tracy Middleton, Women's Health magazine | 04.24.2017

Genetic testing, once the realm of science fiction, has come so far that millions of physicians, and their patients, use...

Close up photo of a globe, turned on its side to display the United States and Mexico.
By César Palacios-González, BioNews | 04.24.2017

It is not every day that we can examine the details of the first use of a new reproductive technology...

Portrait of Henrietta Lacks in a coat with a male partner, David. wearing a suit.
By Hannah Giorgis, The Ringer | 04.24.2017

The Oprah-led HBO film is a moving portrayal of a black family’s struggle for justice. But is being seen enough?

When...

A kitchen frying pan holds several cut up mushrooms.
By Brooke Borel, Slate | 04.21.2017

But revamping the way we look at products created by genetic engineering and CRISPR is more difficult than you might

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Several protesters hold signs behind a long banner stating "March for Science."
By J. Ama Mantey, The Root | 04.20.2017

Despite overwhelming data demonstrating that Donald Trump rode a wave of white resentment across age, gender, income and education levels...