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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.

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

By The Korea Times, The Korea Times | 01.12.2006

Korea University historian Choi Jang-jip criticized the government for its inability to properly monitor the works of Seoul National University...

By The Korea Times, The Korea Times | 01.12.2006

Voices are getting louder over the revision of the bioethics law amid allegations that female researchers of Prof. Hwang Woo-suk's...

By International Herald Tribune, International Herald Tribune | 01.11.2006

SEOUL, Wednesday, Jan. 11 - The downfall of Hwang Woo Suk, the South Korean scientist vilified for faking his papers...

By New York Times, New York Times | 01.10.2006

Dr. Hwang Woo Suk, the South Korean researcher who claimed to have cloned human cells, fabricated evidence for all of...

By Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review | 01.07.2006

A University of Pittsburgh researcher embroiled in an international cloning scandal is seeking to patent technology to create embryonic stem...

By The Korea Herald, The Korea Herald | 01.05.2006

The head of a presidential panel which has been investigating ethical issues related to the research of Hwang Woo-suk offered...

By The Chosun Ilbo, The Chosun Ilbo | 01.04.2006

Korea_s already battered biotech industry faces a fresh challenge from women_s rights activists angry at what they see as a...

By The Korea Times, The Korea Times | 01.03.2006

Korean TV station MBC Tuesday dealt another blow to the country's cloning scientist Hwang Woo-suk, claiming he had forced his...