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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...

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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

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By Shayna Korol, Vox | 06.12.2026

AI company CEOs Sam Altman (OpenAI), Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind), and Dario Amodei (Anthropic) disagree on a lot, like how...

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By Ed Pilkington, The Guardian | 06.12.2026

Desperate US parents paying up to $20,000 a session for a procedure scientists say could be bogus

Autistic children as...

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By Mustapha Bature Sallama, Modern Ghana | 06.11.2026

In much of West Africa, a woman who cannot bear children does not merely face a medical condition. She faces...

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By Emily Baumgaertner Nunn, The New York Times | 06.11.2026

 

When scientists at Columbia University announced they had used a newer technology to precisely edit the genes of human...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 06.11.2026

On my second visit with Nancy Wexler at her Manhattan apartment, she had a gift for me. It was a...

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By Isabella Cueto and J. Emory Parker, Stat | 06.11.2026

WASHINGTON — A pledge to “Make America Healthy Again” earned Robert Kennedy Jr. his job atop U.S. health agencies a year...

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By Tobi Thomas, The Guardian | 06.10.2026

The UK’s stem cell transplant system is potentially putting the lives of blood cancer patients at risk as a result...

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By Max Barnhart, Chemical & Engineering News | 06.09.2026

On June 1, an international group of industry and academic collaborators, led by geneticist Dieter Egli at Columbia University, released...