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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...

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By Michael Le Page , New Scientist | 06.25.2026

We now know the master gene that controls embryonic development in people. Called NANOG, its role has been identified by...

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By Carl Zimmer and Catrin Einhorn, The New York Times | 06.25.2026

The Trump administration and a company that is promising to bring long-gone animals back from extinction announced a partnership on...

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By Ashley Smart , Undark | 06.24.2026

As Edward Donnell Ivy remembers it, many of the sickle cell episodes he endured in his 20s were akin to headaches...

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By Paul Knoepfler, Stat | 06.24.2026

What if you could precisely change the genome of a pre-implantation human embryo and then safely use that embryo to...

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By Lauren Roberts, ABC News | 06.23.2026

Deanna Carr's early 20s looked very different to most people's.

"While everyone was travelling Europe and doing all those great...

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By Maggie Astor, The New York Times | 06.23.2026

Every year, patients undergo millions of in vitro fertilization procedures worldwide. Only a minority result in a live birth.

In...

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By Daniela J. Lamas, The New York Times | 06.22.2026

In the first hours after my daughter was born, three years ago now, I searched her for answers. I examined...

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By Jennifer Takhar, Carolyn Wilson-Nash, and Chloe He, BioNews | 06.22.2026

Imagine wanting to have a child and discovering, at every stage, that the system was not designed with you in...