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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...

He Juankui at the second international summit on human genome editing
By Jon Cohen, Science | 03.21.2022

Biophysicist He Jiankui, having served a 3-year sentence for creating the world’s first genetically engineered babies, may be released from...

He Jiankui taking questions in 2018
By Echo Xie, South China Morning Post | 03.20.2022

Chinese bioethicists are looking at the issues around caring for the world’s first gene-edited babies, and say more needs to...

A destroyed apartment block
By Lizzie Cernik and Anastasiia Levchenko, Refinery29 | 03.16.2022

Kharkiv, Ukraine: 13 March, 2022
Photo by Fotoreserg

The day before war broke out in Ukraine, 33-year-old Tanya [...

a strand of DNA has one side taken out by someone with an editing tool
By Zachary Brennan, Endpoints News | 03.15.2022

As Intellia recently unveiled its latest promising data around one in a series of potentially game-changing gene therapies, the FDA...

By Press Release, Juvenile Law Center | 03.15.2022

Philadelphia, PA (March 15, 2022) – Today, Juvenile Law Center, the nation’s first public interest law firm for children's rights...

Africa on a globe
By ThankGod Echezona Ebenezer et al., Nature | 03.15.2022

Image by James Wiseman on Unsplash

Sleeper fish (Bostrychus africanus) are a staple food in West Africa. Harvesting...

Françoise Baylis
By Andrew Riley and Caitlyn MacDonald, Dal News | 03.15.2022

Françoise Baylis, photo by XhenetaM,
CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Two of Dalhousie’s leading researchers are being honoured...

lab mouse sitting in a gloved hand
By Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine | 03.14.2022

A team of researchers have successfully raised a mouse into adulthood that was produced from a single unfertilized egg. 

This...