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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 Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic | 01.27.2025

After my 20th shot of hormones, I texted my boyfriend, only half kidding, “I’m dying.” We had decided to freeze...

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By Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 01.26.2025
Mass-producing eggs and sperm in a laboratory in order to have a baby with yourself or three other people in...
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By Jackie Davalos, Rachel Adams-Heard, and Kendall Taggart, Bloomberg | 01.24.2025

For women in the US seeking fertility treatment or considering donating their eggs, there’s a fair amount of information they...

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By Sigal Samuel, Vox | 01.20.2025

Photo "Elon Musk Presenting Tesla's Fully Autonomous Future" by  on Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

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By Kristen V. Brown, The Atlantic | 01.15.2025

The first time Jamie Cassidy was pregnant, the fetus had a genetic mutation so devastating that she and her husband...

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By Di Caelers, Nature | 01.14.2025

Updates to South African research ethics guidelines which recognize significant potential for treating genetic diseases through heritable human genome editing...

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By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 01.14.2025

A little-known gene editor, tested with help from a disgraced gene therapist seeking redemption, may have cured a 1-year-old boy...