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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 Jessica Hamzelou, MIT Technology Review | 11.25.2022

Peter Zhu was just 19 years old when he died following a skiing accident in West Point, New York. His...

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By Dov Greenbaum and Mark Gerstein, Nature | 11.24.2022

It has been 25 years since the release of GATTACA, a film that tells the story of a credible...

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By Heidi Ledford, Nature | 11.23.2022

A systematic sweep of viral genomes has revealed a trove of potential CRISPR-based genome-editing tools.

CRISPR–Cas systems are common in...

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By Sara Reardon, Nature | 11.23.2022

David Bennett’s heart was failing. The 57-year-old handyman from Maryland had weeks to live and, because he had a history...

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By Edward Helmore, The Guardian | 11.23.2022

US drug regulators have approved a one-off gene-therapy treatment for adults with the genetic blood disorder hemophilia B that frees...

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By Craig Miller, Morningstar | 11.22.2022

It runs about $50,000 for a dog, with a 20% success rate, and there are numerous ethical considerations

This article...

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By Carrie Arnold, The Atlantic | 11.20.2022

Thousands of miles from home in the steamy Amazon rainforest in the mid-1800s, the British naturalist Henry Walter Bates had...

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By Melissa Harris-Perry, WNYC Studios | 11.17.2022

Assisted reproduction clinics have seen a sharp rise in the number of Black folks seeking their services during the pandemic. But many ...