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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 Editorial, Los Angeles Times | 02.20.2006
AFTER A FIRST YEAR THAT veered off in too many bad directions, California's budding stem cell agency has started 2006...
By Osagie K. Obasogie, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.20.2006

President Bush's State of the Union address highlighted several key policy issues, such as America's dependency on foreign oil, the...

By Capitol Media Services, Capitol Media Services | 02.17.2006

PHOENIX _ A House panel voted Thursday to criminalize the practice of buying and selling human eggs.
The 6-2 Judiciary...

By Barbara Demick, Los Angeles Times | 02.16.2006
SEOUL _ Like many scandals, this one started with an anonymous tip and a cloak-and-dagger meeting in the dead of...
By Kim Tae-gyu, The Korea Times | 02.16.2006
A senior researcher of the disbanded Seoul cloning team Thursday accused Prof. Gerald Schatten at the University of Pittsburgh of...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 02.16.2006
To fill a void in federal supervision, the National Academy of Sciences is setting up a committee to provide informal...
By The Economist, The Economist | 02.16.2006
THERE is no better time than the commercial orgy that is Valentine's Day to consider the baby business. So with...
By Mark Henderson, The Times (London) | 02.14.2006
BRITISH women are to be cleared to donate eggs solely for cloning experiments that promise new therapies for diseases such...