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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...

IVF test tube and insurance card
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN | 10.23.2023

Reproductive health experts are updating how they define “infertility” to be more inclusive.

The new definition, issued last week by...

Logo of Verve Therapeutics
By Annalee Armstrong and Max Bayer, Fierce Biotech | 10.23.2023

A nearly year-long clinical hold on Verve Therapeutics’ base editing therapy meant to treat a genetic form of high cholesterol has...

Biotechnology exhibition featuring a model of DNA
By Jag Bhalla & Nathan J. Robinson, Current Affairs | 10.20.2023

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Techno-optimism is a dangerous philosophy whose adherents espouse the blind faith that market capitalism...

Scientist administering gene therapy
By Tina Hesman Saey, Science News | 10.20.2023

Will Ungerer isn’t a typical fourth-grader.

The 10-year-old from Midlothian, Va., plays tag with his friends and swims in the...

ChatGPT on a phone
By Garance Burke and Matt O’Brien, Associated Press | 10.20.2023

Photo by Sanket Mishra on Unsplash

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As hospitals and health care systems turn to artificial intelligence...

scientist editing DNA
By Emily Mullin, Wired | 10.20.2023

Two companies have launched clinical trials to see if they can restore hearing to children with a rare type of...

Syringe with a needle
By Manisha Krishnan, Vice | 10.19.2023

Canada will legalize medically assisted dying for people who are addicted to drugs next spring, in a move some drug...

A chicken farm
By Claire Robinson, GMWatch | 10.19.2023

Chicken farm by "L214 - éthique et animaux"
from Wiki Commons, licensed under CC by 3.0.

Scientists at...