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In a world first, the UK medicines regulator has approved a therapy that uses the CRISPR–Cas9 gene-editing tool as a...

The first medical treatment that uses Crispr gene editing was authorized Thursday by the United Kingdom.
The one-time therapy, which...

In a small initial test in people, researchers have shown that a single infusion of a novel gene-editing treatment can...

In recent years, Singapore has increasingly leveraged new reproductive technologies to overcome the country's rapidly aging demographics and dismal fertility...
Policies

Open letter to UK's FSA is published
A group of experts representing business, farming, certification, academia, science and civil society...

When Hannah Lovaglio’s children were born, she didn’t think twice about the newborn health screening they received in the hospital...

Some worries about heritable genetic modifications are subsiding and Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research Director Peter Marks said sponsors...

On May 31, 2022, Colorado was the first state in the country — and the only one to date —...
Society

All health care students worldwide should learn the history of medicine during the Nazi regime and the Holocaust, according to...

With danger comes some interesting prospects in the field of gene therapy and genome editing, Dr. Brett Salkeld believes.
It’s...

It’s been a no good, very bad year for Effective Altruism, or “EA” for short, the cultural movement that...

Executive Summary
The Holocaust, the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of 6 million Jews by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime...
Perspectives
Note: Originally published as “Gerechtigkeit für Henrietta Lacks” in the German publication nd; translated by the author...

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — As hospitals and health care systems turn to artificial intelligence...

On Dec. 1, 2023, the Natal Conference will be held in Austin, Texas. Promising to gather the “brightest minds in...
