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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 Elizabeth Cooney, STAT | 08.20.2020

The Food and Drug Administration’s rejection of a gene therapy for hemophilia A on Wednesday surprised many hematology researchers and...

3D landscape of a genome
By Indrani Mukherjee, Broad Institute | 08.20.2020

Life can change dramatically when someone learns they are genetically predisposed to a disease, such as a condition called familial...

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By Sandee Lamotte, CNN | 08.19.2020

A plan to release over 750 million genetically modified mosquitoes into the Florida Keys in 2021 and 2022 received final...

Scientific American Cover 1896
By Jen Schwartz and Dan Schlenoff, Scientific American | 08.19.2020

An article about women engineers, published in 1908, has a promising start: If women are attending technical schools and are...

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By Natalya Ortolano, STAT | 08.18.2020

For patients who’ve run out of other options, experimental, unproven therapies like stem cell treatments offer new hope. But how...

Scientist signaling stop
By Sarah de Crescenzo, Xconomy | 08.18.2020

A Phase 1 trial testing a Poseida Therapeutics cell therapy in men with prostate cancer is on hold after a...

Scientist conducting genomic research
By Amy Goldstein, The Washington Post | 08.18.2020

A new advisory board, created to review the ethics of proposed fetal tissue research grants, is urging the Trump administration...

Newborn Child
By Emily Mullin, OneZero | 08.18.2020

The birth of the world’s first gene-edited babies, revealed in November 2018, prompted international shock and outrage. Working in...