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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 Jeff Tollefson, Max Kozlov, Mariana Lenharo and Traci Watson, Nature | 11.08.2024

Donald Trump” by Gage Skidmore  is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0

From repealing climate policies to overturning guidance...

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By Ned Pagliarulo, BioPharmaDive | 11.05.2024

A medicine built around a more precise form of CRISPR gene editing appeared to work as designed in its first...

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By Bill Newman and Demetra Georgiou, The Guardian | 11.03.2024

We were alarmed to read the findings of your investigation into an international network of “race science” activists seeking to...

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By Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Hannah Devlin, The Guardian | 11.03.2024

When Simone Collins, a Republican running for a seat in Pennsylvania’s state legislature, and her husband, Malcolm, were privately asked...

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By Jennifer Denbow, Nursing Clio | 10.31.2024

Access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) has emerged as a crucial issue in the 2024 election. While the Republican Party...

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By Susan A. Nolan and Michael Kimball, Psychology Today | 10.30.2024

In 2021, the American Psychological Association (APA) published a resolutionApology to People of Color for APA’s Role in...

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By Mackenzie Mays, Los Angeles Times | 10.29.2024

SACRAMENTO —  Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Sunday that requires large health insurance companies to cover in vitro fertilization —...

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By Zeenat Beebeejaun, PET | 10.28.2024

Building on the 2016 BBC Panorama documentary 'Inside Britain's Fertility Business', which exposed the use of controversial fertility treatment add-ons...