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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 Jacqueline Howard, CNN | 01.18.2024

Democratic lawmakers have introduced legislation aimed at protecting access to infertility treatments, such as in vitro fertilization, amid growing concern...

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By Paul Moses, CNN | 01.16.2024

"Donald Trump Signs The Pledge" by Michael Vadon 
is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.

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By Ned Pagliarulo, BioPharma Dive | 01.16.2024

The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved Vertex Pharmaceuticals’ CRISPR-based medicine Casgevy for the inherited blood condition beta thalassemia, expanding...

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By Grace Halden, BioNews | 01.15.2024

Sperm donation is used to help infertile couples, same-sex couples, and solo women to conceive children where otherwise it would...

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By Jason Wilson, The Guardian | 01.14.2024

Claudine Gay at her Inauguration as Harvard President, 
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A data scientist promoted by...

Image of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment venipuncture
By Caitjan Gainty, The Conversation | 01.12.2024

In 1972, a whistleblower revealed that the United States Public Health Service (USPHS) had withheld syphilis treatment from hundreds of...

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By Kamal Nahas, The Scientist | 01.12.2024

New gene editing tools could become gamechangers for gene therapy, but scientists need to develop new approaches that curtail undesirable...