This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. US deputy health secretary: Vaccine guidelines are still subject to change Over the past year, Jim O’Neill has become one of the most powerful people in public health. As the US deputy health…
Alex Blackwood was working as a real estate investing associate at Goldman Sachs. Here’s why he decided to start a business instead — despite the pay cut.
A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the taboo technology. The new company, called Preventive, is being formed to research so-called “heritable genome editing,” in which the DNA of embryos would be…