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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 Sayyed Muhsin and Alexis Heng Boon Chin , BioNews | 02.12.2024

In 2018, Dr He Jiankui announced he created the world's first genome-edited babies (BioNews 977), which sparked a call...

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By Tom Avril, The Philadelphia Inquirer | 02.08.2024

An 11-year-old deaf boy is now able to hear in one ear after undergoing a gene therapy treatment at Children’s...

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By Adam Zewe, MIT News | 02.07.2024

A tiny device built by scientists at MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology could be used to...

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By Kate Nelson, Atmos | 02.06.2024

Across the globe, Native peoples are leading a movement to assert authority over what was theirs from the very start...

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By Zoe Greenberg, The Philadelphia Inquirer | 02.06.2024

Nicole Junior and Chanel Glover were ready to be mothers, so the same month as their wedding, they began pursuing...

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By Sienna Rodgers, The House | 02.05.2024

Would you select an embryo according to its chances of higher intelligence? And is that even possible? Sienna Rodgers explores...

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By E.M. Wolkovich, Nature | 02.05.2024

I have just been accused of scientific fraud. Not data fraud — no one accused me of fabricating or misleadingly...

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By Denis Noble, Nature | 02.05.2024

How Life Works: A User’s Guide to the New Biology Philip Ball Pan Macmillan (2024)

For too long, scientists...