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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 Todd Feathers, The Guardian | 03.25.2024

For the last several months, a city at the heart of Silicon Valley has been training artificial intelligence to recognize...

sam altman at TechCrunch conference
By Hilary Brueck, Business Insider | 03.23.2024

"OpenAI Co-Founder & CEO Sam Altman speaks onstage during TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2019 at Moscone Convention Center on October...

Cameraman filming movie
By Jennifer Maas, Variety | 03.22.2024

We Were Dangerous” is a surprisingly funny film for a movie whose central conflict is the sterilization of...

Kidney surgery operating room
By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.21.2024

For the first time, surgeons have transplanted a kidney from a genetically modified pig into a living person, doctors in...

Gene therapy costs graphic
By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 03.20.2024

There is a new most expensive drug ever—a gene therapy that costs as much as a Brooklyn brownstone or a...

Mexican Flag
By Carey Gillan, UnSpun | 03.18.2024

A Mexican standoff with the United States turned into a Mexican smack-down this month with the release of Mexico’s formal...

DNA wheel
By Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic | 03.18.2024

People are discovering the truth about their biological parents with DNA—and learning that incest is far more common than many...

CRISPR gene editing visual
By Mariella Bodemeier Loayza Careaga, The Scientist | 03.15.2024

Scientists have genetically modified isolated microbes for decades. Now, using CRISPR, they intend to target entire microbiomes.

Humans are never...