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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 By Elizabeth Weil, New York Times Magazine | 03.12.2006
Like most American women who give birth to a severely handicapped child, Donna Branca became pregnant with A.J. well before...
By Peter Aldhous, New Scientist | 03.11.2006
HYEONI KIM believed. He had been paralysed at just 8 years old when he was hit by a car on...
By San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.09.2006

State lawmakers on Wednesday ordered an audit of the institute and committee created to spend $7 billion of voter-approved bonds...

By By Kwon Ji young, The Korean Herald | 03.08.2006
U.S. lawmakers debated the fallout from Hwang Woo suk's fraudulent stem cell research on Tuesday afternoon, while Korean prosecutors fruitlessly...
By Auslan Cramb, UK Telegraph | 03.08.2006

The man whose name is synonymous with the cloning of Dolly the sheep admitted yesterday that he was not responsible...

By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times | 03.05.2006
SEOUL _ When Hwang Mi Soon rose from her wheelchair and shuffled forward with the aid of a metal walker...
By Marcy Darnovsky | 03.02.2006

Presentation at California's Stem Cell Initiative: confronting the Legal and Policy Challenges, Boalt Law School, University of California, Berkeley, CA...