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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.

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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

gene therapy
By Betsy McKay, The Wall Street Journal | 03.11.2024

Akintunde Odunsi is used to taking long, brisk walks. So he worried in 2021 when he started feeling so tired...

neural networks and AI graphic
By Carl Zimmer, The New York Times | 03.10.2024

In 1889, a French doctor named Francois-Gilbert Viault climbed down from a mountain in the Andes, drew blood from his...

petri dish in IVF process
By Ian Sample, The Guardian | 03.08.2024

Scientists are a step closer to making IVF eggs from patients’ skin cells after adapting the procedure that created Dolly...

Human Genome
By Rob Stein, NPR | 03.07.2024

A big federal research project aimed at reducing racial disparities in genetic research has unveiled the program's first major trove...

IVF Clinic
By Daniel Gilbert, The Washington Post | 03.07.2024

Vitaly Kushnir’s fertility clinic offers to screen an embryo to predict a baby’s sex, but the service can lead to...

IVF Lab
By Liz Baker, Debbie Elliott, and Susanna Capelouto, NPR | 03.06.2024

The Alabama State Legislature passed a bill Wednesday night granting civil and criminal immunity for in vitro fertilization service providers...

DATA
By Juliet Kunkel, yes! | 03.04.2024
NEJM
By Paul A. Lombardo, The New England Journal of Medicine | 03.02.2024

In 1923, Boston City Hospital chose Dr. William Mayo, already famous for the work of his Minnesota clinic, to speak...