Late last year, dozens of researchers spanning thousands of miles banded together in a race to save one baby boy’s life. The result was a world first: a cutting-edge, gene-editing therapy fashioned ...

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A new genomic method has enabled multiple people with rare conditions to receive diagnoses that were previously unattainable ...

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The U.S. government is divesting from mRNA vaccines, but will other uses of the technology be spared? In a time of ...