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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 Jesse Reynolds, San Diego Union Tribune | 01.27.2006

The leaders of California's ambitious stem cell research program should closely read the news of the last couple months. A...

By Paisley Dodds, Associated Press | 01.26.2006
Memory enhancement, IQ boosters and drugs designed to attack genetic weaknesses may increase competition in the future and create a...
By Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Bee | 01.24.2006

Biotech companies that commercialize taxpayer-funded stem cell research would have to plan to sell the drugs at the "lowest available...

By San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union Tribune | 01.23.2006

A taxpayer watchdog group is expected to release a report today outlining how leaders of the state's $3 billion stem...

By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 01.22.2006
California's Proposition 71 program was intended to create a $3 billion West Coast counterpart to the National Institutes of Health...
By Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Bee | 01.20.2006

The fraud perpetrated by South Korean scientist Hwang Woo-Suk is a setback for regenerative medicine, but it also serves as...

By San Diego Union Tribune, San Diego Union Tribune | 01.19.2006

A public watchdog group called yesterday for the chairman of the board overseeing California's stem cell initiative to step down...

By San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle | 01.19.2006

An East Bay biotechnology watchdog group on Wednesday called for the resignation of Robert Klein, chairman of the Proposition 71...