News

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...

photo of pipetting in laboratory
By David Jensen, Capitol Weekly | 02.19.2025

California scientists took what looked like an $800 million hit last week in their efforts to develop revolutionary treatments and...

CRISPR graphic
By Ryan Cross, Endpoints News | 02.19.2025

On a sunny September day in 2023, scientists at CRISPR Therapeutics invited me to peer through their microscopes. Through the...

flag of Japan on blue background
By Ewan Bolton, The Telegraph | 02.18.2025

Just last week, in the Miyagi prefecture of Japan, the local governor met victims of an official eugenics policy to...

sickle cells in a blood sample
By Bertha Coombs, CNBC | 02.18.2025

Starting in his early teens, Deshawn “DJ” Chow wasn’t sure he’d ever be able to live a normal life. Crushing...

graphic of flags of Georgia and Thailand
By Blene Woldeselasse, Humans Rights Research Center | 02.18.2025

Three Thai women have been rescued from a human egg trafficking operation in Georgia, run by a Chinese human trafficking...

gene therapy graphic
By Oriol Güell, El País | 02.17.2025

A “small strand of blood in the poop.” This was the first sign, initially viewed as unimportant, that put Jesús...