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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 Megan Molteni, STAT | 02.05.2024

After a months-long fight with Texas Medicaid over coverage of a gene therapy, Afghan refugees now have a chance to...

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By Olivia Olander, Mackenzie Wilkes, Katy O’Donnell, Daniel Payne, and Ruth Reader, Politico | 02.04.2024

Photo by National Cancer Institute on Unsplash

Artificial intelligence isn’t just a niche tool for cheating on homework or generating...

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By Robin McKie, The Guardian | 02.03.2024

Tens of thousands of bogus research papers are being published in journals in an international scandal that is worsening every...

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By Liam Drew, Nature | 02.02.2024

Neuralink, the company through which entrepreneur Elon Musk hopes to revolutionize brain–computer interfaces (BCIs), has implanted a ‘brain-reading’ device into...

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By Amber Dance, Discover | 02.02.2024

Around the turn of the century, microbiologists at Danisco USA Inc. had a problem: The bacteria they used to make...

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By Daisy Dumas, The Guardian | 02.01.2024

After her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, Meg Herrmann decided to get genetically tested for a hereditary cancer-causing gene...

Claudine Gay at her Inauguration as Harvard President
By Jason Wilson, The Guardian | 01.31.2024

The rightwing activist Christopher Rufo has links to a self-styled “sociobiology magazine” that is focused on the supposed relationships between...

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By Greg Allen, NPR | 01.26.2024

MIAMI — In the age-old war of human versus mosquitoes, the bugs have been winning. 

At least 700,000 people...