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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...

strands of DNA being separated
By Carissa Wong, Nature | 11.16.2023

In a world first, the UK medicines regulator has approved a therapy that uses the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing tool as a...

DNA scissors
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 11.16.2023

The first medical treatment that uses Crispr gene editing was authorized Thursday by the United Kingdom.

The one-time therapy, which...

DNA strand
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 11.14.2023

In a small initial test in people, researchers have shown that a single infusion of a novel gene-editing treatment can...

sperm around an egg in a beaker
By Alexis Heng, UCA News | 11.13.2023

In recent years, Singapore has increasingly leveraged new reproductive technologies to overcome the country's rapidly aging demographics and dismal fertility...

model of a heart
By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 11.12.2023

A technique for precisely rewriting the genetic code directly in the body has slashed “bad” cholesterol levels—possibly for life—in three...

a monkey
By Helen Floersh, Fierce Biotech | 11.10.2023

The images are unsettling, to put it mildly: a baby monkey whose skin grows eerily green, with glowing fingertips reminiscent...

a lecture hall
By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 11.10.2023

All health care students worldwide should learn the history of medicine during the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, according to...

graphic of a scientist pulling out a particular part of a strand of DNA
By Quinton Amundson, The Catholic Register | 11.10.2023

With danger comes some interesting prospects in the field of gene therapy and genome editing, Dr. Brett Salkeld believes.

It’s...