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Many private and public health insurers won’t cover the $4,000-to-$8,000 expense of whole-genome sequencing. Florida now is among eight state Medicaid programs that do.
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Humans are generating vast amounts of data each day— and we're running out of storage space. Molecular biologist Dina Zielinski discusses a solution that can pack tons of data into a tiny space: DNA.
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Francis Collins has served longer than any other director of the National Institutes of Health since 1971. He tells NPR he did not anticipate the culture wars taking over scientific fact.
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The unprecedented study involves using the gene-editing technique CRISPR to edit a gene while it's still inside a patient's body. In exclusive interviews, NPR talks with two of the first participants.
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Analysis of DNA from more than 400,000 people in the U.K. suggests a genetic modification that protects against HIV may actually increase the overall risk of premature death.
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An international group of 18 prominent scientists and bioethicists is calling for countries around the world to impose a moratorium on the creation of babies whose genes have been altered in the lab.
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Despite outrage over gene editing in China that affected the birth of twins, research is underway in the U.S. to assess the safety and effectiveness of CRISPR tools to edit genes in human embryos.
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China's government ordered a halt Thursday to work by a medical team that claimed to have helped make the world's first gene-edited babies, as a group...
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The Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing issues a consensus on how scientists might responsibly move forward to create gene-edited babies in the wake of a rogue scientist's claims.
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A scientist says he created the first genetically edited babies using CRISPR to protect them from HIV infection. The move has prompted immediate criticism as premature and reckless.
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After Hurricane Harvey, researchers in Houston started looking for ways to stop stress from affecting the genes of developing babies. They’ve been…
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As the Trump administration decides not to defend the Affordable Care Act's legal protections for people with pre-existing conditions, questions arise about health insurance and genetic information.