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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...

IVF interrupted
By Ruth Graham, The New York Times | 06.12.2024

Southern Baptists, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, voted on Wednesday to oppose the use of in vitro fertilization. The vote...

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By Karen Fischer, BioSpace | 06.12.2024

When Orchard Therapeutics announced the $4.25 million price tag in March for its newly approved rare disease gene therapy Lenmeldy...

Blue background with a hospital bag hanging from a metal stand in front of it.
By Claire Booth, The Conversation | 06.12.2024

Image by Marcelo Leal from Unsplash

Individually, rare diseases are rare, but there are so many rare diseases that over ...

Pink, blue, and red depiction of cancer cells.
By Sarah Gantz, The Philadelphia Inquirer | 06.10.2024

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Penn Medicine’s patients of color are far less likely than white patients to...

a graphic of scissors taking out a section of a dna strand
By Alison Snyder, Axios | 06.06.2024

Gene editing's next chapter will be focused on tackling cancers and more common diseases, uncovering new details about aging...

Dark haired person wearing protective laboratory gear handling a set of test tubes
By Marc Zimmer, The Conversation | 06.06.2024

Image by the National Cancer Institute from Unsplash

During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today...

IVF
By Natalie Krebs, NPR | 06.04.2024

For seven years, Jacqueline Brock endured grueling fertility treatments – and all of the emotion that came with them.

“I...

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By Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times | 06.04.2024

Peter Diamandis, a week away from turning 63, bounds out of a Starbucks on a recent morning with a cup...