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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 Michelle Diament , Disability Scoop | 07.30.2021

A new recommendation from a leading medical association is urging children with intellectual disability, developmental delay and other congenital anomalies...

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By Meredith Wadman, Science | 07.30.2021

Photo of Iowa Soldiers' Orphans' Home licensed for use by CC BY-SA 3.0

In July 1934, psychologist Harold Skeels evaluated...

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By Robin Fears et al., Stem Cell Reports | 07.29.2021

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Scientific advances in regenerative medicine continue to offer great promise in our attempts to tackle intractable diseases, including those...

By Pamela Mahoney Tsigdinos, Times Higher Education | 07.29.2021

Talented young women and men in both the academic and business worlds share a common dilemma: their career development timeline...

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By Tim Prudente, The Baltimore Sun | 07.29.2021

The family of Henrietta Lacks has hired a prominent civil rights attorney who says he plans to seek compensation for...

By Katie Stoll and Robert Resta, The DNA Exchange | 07.26.2021

The American College of Medical Genetics and Genomics (ACMG) recently published a new Clinical Practice Resource that they proclaim recommends...

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By Alex Philippidis, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 07.26.2021

Caribou Biosciences, the developer of gene-edited cell therapies co-founded by Nobel laureate Jennifer Doudna, PhD, has launched an upsized initial...

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By Staff, GMWatch | 07.23.2021

The Philippines has approved GMO golden rice for commercial production. This is in spite of the fact that no independent...