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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 Emile P. Torres, Truthdig | 11.09.2023

It’s been a no good, very bad year for Effective Altruism, or “EA” for short, the cultural movement that...

poctures of Holocaust victims
By Herwig Czech et al. , The Lancet | 11.08.2023

Executive Summary

The Holocaust, the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime...

a sickle cell
By Ned Pagliarulo and Shaun Lucas, BioPharma Dive | 11.08.2023

For most people, red blood cells travel smoothly through the body. Round and flexible, they flow through arteries and veins...

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By Emily Mullin, Wired | 11.08.2023

image "Blood Samples" by Daniel Sone from the website of the National Cancer Institute

When Hannah Lovaglio’s children were born, she...

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By Garnet Henderson, Rewire News Group | 11.06.2023

“We go in for excessive bleeding and come out missing body parts! How does that make sense?”

For more than...

human brain connected to electrical circuits
By Jonathan Shaffer, Arsenii Alenichev, and Marlyn C. Faure, BMJ Global Health | 11.03.2023

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has long been criticised for championing the trend of socially reductive, ‘magic bullet’ technical...

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By Derrick Gingery, Pink Sheet | 11.01.2023

Some worries about heritable genetic modifications are subsiding and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks said sponsors...

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By Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 10.31.2023
A panel of experts said on Tuesday that a groundbreaking treatment for sickle cell disease was safe enough for clinical...