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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 Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 08.03.2022

The pigs had been lying dead in the lab for an hour — no blood was circulating in their bodies...

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By María Luisa Paúl, The Washington Post | 08.03.2022

Under Georgia law, fetuses now have “full legal recognition” as living people. That means their parents can claim them as...

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By Daniel F. Silva, The Washington Post | 08.01.2022

This month, a Bloomberg headline labeled the popular Brazilian butt lift (BBL) “one of the deadliest cosmetic surgeries,” echoing similar...

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By Alexis Heng, The Sun Daily | 07.30.2022

Genetic testing has recently been a buzz in Malaysia, with reports of new coronavirus strains being identified through genomic sequencing...

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By Yuting Zhu and Jonathan D. Moreno, The Hastings Center | 07.28.2022

In early April, He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who used gene-editing technology on human embryos born in 2018, was released...

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By Jocelyn Kaiser, Science | 07.28.2022

When a high school athlete dies from a heart attack or a young woman needs a heart transplant, it is...

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By Megan Molteni, Stat | 07.28.2022

In a little-noticed study published earlier this year, scientists from Oregon Health & Science University reported the birth of three...

A child saved by the treatment discussed
By David Jensen, The California Stem Cell Report | 07.27.2022

A child saved by the therapy; photo by CIRM

“Jakob is 2 years old. He has a deadly disease. But...