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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 flow of money is falling against a plain black background.
By Damian Garde, STAT | 11.28.2016

It was a good day for UniQure, a Dutch biotech company at work on gene therapies for rare diseases. A...

Illustrative image of DNA strands and molecules.
By Emily Mullin, MIT Technology Review | 11.22.2016

When a woman gets her genome sequenced, questions about privacy arise for her identical twin sister.

In August 2015, Samantha...

Silhouette of a pregnant body is shown, with their face pointed down and holding their stomach.
By Prak Chan Thul, Reuters | 11.21.2016

A Cambodian court charged an Australian nurse on Monday for allegedly operating an illegal fertility clinic, police said, weeks after...

A clock's edges are shown spiraling into several other clocks.
By Daniel Oberhaus, VICE Motherboard | 11.21.2016

Last week the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which consists of 18 scientists and policy experts...

Illustrative art that represents faceless human individuals standing in line like dominoes. Some in the back have been knocked over and may potentially fall onto the next person in the line.
By Sara Novic, VICE | 11.18.2016

"'All men are created equal.' Well, it's not true."

That's President-elect Donald Trump, a clip unearthed for a PBS documentary...

A display of a human portrait face, from Heather Dewey-Hagborg's 2012 art project called “Stranger Visions.”
By Jason Koebler, VICE Motherboard | 11.18.2016

Gene editing and new biological engineering techniques have allowed our minds to run wild: In the last few years, we’ve...

John Holdren is pictured against a solid mustard yellow background.
By Ed Yong, The Atlantic | 11.18.2016

In 1976, President Gerald Ford appointed physicist H. Guyford Stever as the first Director of the Office of Science and...

A bubble of soap--the size of an adult hand-- is being blown through a wand.
By Andrew Burmon, Inverse | 11.18.2016

When the Democratic Party gave up on technology, progressivism malfunctioned. Now, technophile liberals are preparing to fix a movement.

In...