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Technologies

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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...

DNA scissors

The first medical treatment that uses Crispr gene editing was authorized Thursday by the United Kingdom.

The one-time therapy, which...

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

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

Policies

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Open letter to UK's FSA is published

A group of experts representing business, farming, certification, academia, science and civil society...

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

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

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

Society

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

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

It’s...

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

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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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Photo by Sanket Mishra on Unsplash

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

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

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Respiratory syncytial virus, or R.S.V., is a nasty bug. It’s the leading cause of hospitalizations among American infants and results...