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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 The Associated Press, The Associated Press | 12.07.2005

SEOUL, South Korea -- Prominent South Korean stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk, recently embroiled in a scandal over ethics lapses...

By New Scientist, New Scientist | 12.05.2005

A television programme alleging that South Korean cloning pioneer Hwang Woo-Suk fabricated breakthrough stem cell research will not be shown...

By Newsweek, Newsweek | 12.05.2005

Dec. 5, 2005 issue - Chris Neuner was doing his manly duty in the collection room at New York University's...

By The Register, The Register | 12.02.2005

The UK's stem cell research programmes will benefit from £100m over the next two years after Gordon Brown doubled the...

By The Korea Times, The Korea Times | 12.02.2005

MBC TV Friday said a DNA test showed that the conclusions in Hwang Woo-suk_s historic paper published in Science magazine...

By The Chosun Ilbo, The Chosun Ilbo | 12.01.2005

With one of the core members of Seoul National University professor Hwang Woo-suk's research team stationed at the University of...

By The Economist, The Economist | 12.01.2005

MANY in the West agonise over the ethical questions raised by research on stem cells taken from human embryos. In...

By San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle | 11.30.2005

California's embattled Proposition 71 stem cell program took a big step Tuesday toward overcoming lawsuits that have blocked its first...