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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...
WILLIAM BATESON, a foundational figure in the science of genetics at the turn of the last century, once recounted the...
WASHINGTON, DC — In his current role as President Biden’s acting scientific advisor, Francis Collins, MD, PhD, is dealing with...
Imagine taking a genetic test that could tell you your personal risk of developing complications and dying from a particular...
The Rising Tide of Color: The Threat Against
White World-Supremacy (1920), by Lothrop Stoddard
On rereading The Great Gatsby earlier...
Transplant specialists, when evaluating kidneys that come from donors, try to work out how likely it is that the kidney...
In a Zoom call this spring with 19 leaders of A.M.E. Zion church congregations in North Carolina, Dr. Opeyemi Olabisi...
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The Biden administration is considering a requirement that some health plans cover fertility treatment...
It’s a Wild West out there for artificial intelligence. AI applications are increasingly used to make important decisions about humans’...
Over the years, doctors have described more than 7,000 rare diseases, generally defined as those affecting fewer than one in...