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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...

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By Oliver James Campbell, The Guardian | 05.13.2024

As someone who has been hard of hearing since I was a teenager, I read with great interest about the...

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By Gabriel Borelli, Pew Research Center | 05.13.2024

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The political debate around access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) intensified this year,  following...

Image shows a pediatrician with short blond hair inspecting a baby's right ear.
By Victoria Bisset and Adela Suliman, The Washington Post | 05.09.2024

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A baby girl born with profound genetic deafness can now hear unaided after receiving a...

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By Maham Javaid, The Washington Post | 05.09.2024

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New York City is denying...

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By Ryan Cross, Endpoints News | 05.08.2024

A half-decade after a scientist’s reckless experiment with human embryos put a stop to much of China’s clinical work on...

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By Alex Philippidis, Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News | 05.07.2024

Pfizer has paused enrollment in a Phase III trial assessing its Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) gene therapy candidate fordadistrogene movaparvovec...

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By Emi Nietfeld, Slate | 05.07.2024

 Amy Yin always envisioned having at least two daughters. She spent her 20s working as an engineer and founding...

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By Carl Elliott, The New York Times | 05.07.2024

Here is the way I remember it: The year is 1985, and a few medical students are gathered around an...