CRISPR gene editing holds transformative potential for the amelioration and correction of genetic diseases. Its promise is real, but scientific promise alone does not produce a therapeutic industry.
In June 2025 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched the Commissioner’s National Priority Voucher Program (CNPV), billing the initiative as “accelerated drug review for companies supporting U.S. national interests.”
As part of a recent effort to simplify and harmonize its digital framework, the European Union (EU) is considering two interlinked regulatory proposals that could fundamentally reshape the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) in medical devices.
During his first term in office, President Trump vowed in a 2019 State of the Union speech to “eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years.”
Following the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) provision granting Medicare the authority to negotiate drug prices, pharmaceutical companies and allied organizations have brought a dozen lawsuits challenging the legality of the negotiation program.
Quantum technology is increasingly described as the telescope of the 21st century: a scientific instrument that expands what humans can observe, simulate, and engineer.
In a landmark 2013 decision, Maryland v. King, the Supreme Court upheld mandatory DNA collection from arrestees as part of booking procedures, likening cheek swabs to fingerprinting. But 13 years later, renewed public concern about genetic…
Boston is slowly waking from its snowy slumber. Weeks after one of the snowiest storms in the city’s history, drifts still rise several feet along streets and sidewalks as residents pick their way through narrowed passages and over…
The 2025 budget reconciliation bill (“HR1” or “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) significantly amended Medicaid, the federal public health insurance program for low-income people. HR1 has garnered significant attention surrounding new rules like work reporting requirements that…
Iryna Zarutska immigrated to North Carolina in August 2022, fleeing war-torn Ukraine. Exactly three years later, she was taking the subway home from a shift at a local Charlotte pizzeria when, abruptly, Decarlos Brown fatally stabbed…
