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During his 2015 State of the Union address, then-President Barack Obama announced what he promised would be an ambitious public health project. “Tonight, I’m launching a new Precision Medicine Initiative to bring us closer to curing diseases like cancer and diabetes...

This is the 15th installment in the Legacies of Eugenics series, which features essays by leading thinkers devoted to exploring the history of eugenics and the ways it shapes our present. You can read the first part here. The series...

Justin Schleede reaches onto a black lab bench to pick up a tray of small plastic tubes.

"These are saliva...

"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

By John Wagner, Washington Post | 03.30.2006
Maryland will become one of four states that have agreed to fund stem cell research, following final passage yesterday of...
By Lee Romney, Los Angeles Times | 03.30.2006
SAN FRANCISCO _ When voters overwhelmingly approved California's novel $3-billion stem cell initiative, they counted on a promise spelled out...
By John Simpson, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.27.2006
If you pay somebody to build a house, you expect to benefit when it is finished. Probably you will live...
By Sylvia Pagan Westphal, Wall Street Journal | 03.23.2006
Nichola Grant underwent five in-vitro fertilization attempts the traditional way. First came weeks of daily hormone shots to stimulate egg...
By Associated Press, Associated Press | 03.21.2006

SEOUL _ The scientist who stunned the medical world with claims that he had created the first cloned human embryos...

By Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian | 03.18.2006
When a genetic testing kit promising to predict a baby's gender with 99.9% accuracy five weeks after conception was launched...
By Jim Hopkins, USA Today | 03.16.2006
BERKELEY, Calif. _ Five years after a trade group tried reining them in, fertility clinics and brokers are bidding up...
By Jamie Talan, Newsday | 03.13.2006
Why do some scientists lie?

While the recent scandal involving the now discredited research of South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk...