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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...

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"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 Simar Bajaj, Smithsonian Magazine | 07.14.2022

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Bartley Griffith is a cardiac surgeon at the University of Maryland, Baltimore, who says...

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By Dann Okoth, SciDev.Net | 07.14.2022

The World Health Organization (WHO) has issued an urgent call to accelerate access to genomics, especially in resource-poor countries, in...

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By Fabiola Cineas , Vox | 07.13.2022

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To understand how the United States of America became a country without the constitutional...

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By Nairi Shirinian and Meghna Mukherjee, Ms. Magazine | 07.13.2022

It’s no coincidence that the world’s first IVF baby was born just five years after the 1973 Roe v. Wade...

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By Antonio Regalado, MIT Technology Review | 07.12.2022

A volunteer in New Zealand has become the first person to undergo DNA editing in order to lower their blood...

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By Eric B. Kmiec, Stat | 07.11.2022

Twenty-three years ago, the field of gene therapy was bursting with the promise of breakthrough treatments. Then it was almost...

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By Emily Baumgaertner , Los Angeles Times | 07.10.2022

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SAN DIEGO — As a single mother in her mid-20s, Lilly Frost was working as...

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By Lisa C. Ikemoto, Los Angeles Times | 07.07.2022

A few days after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade, Boston IVF, a fertility company with centers in six...