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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 Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 11.22.2005
The head of a Seoul fertility clinic associated with an embattled Korean stem cell researcher said yesterday that he paid...
By Telegraph, Telegraph (London) | 11.22.2005

A vast "bank" of human stem cells is to be brought to Britain, bringing hope of new cures for fatal...

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 11.20.2005
An ethics crisis at one of the world's most successful human embryonic stem cell laboratories has plunged the controversial field...
By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 11.20.2005
MIA PETERSON is not a fan of tests. Because she has Down syndrome, she says, she cannot always think as...
By Tali Woodward, San Francisco Bay Guardian | 11.16.2005
IT'S CLOSE TO impossible these days to avoid the debate over the ethics of stem cell research. George W. Bush...
By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 11.15.2005
A global consortium designed to pursue a controversial type of stem cell research involving cloned embryos is collapsing amid ethical...
By Associated Press, Associated Press | 11.15.2005

The debate over stem cell research soon could be coming to your local grocery store parking lots, shopping centers and...

By The Korea Times, The Korea Times | 11.14.2005

Police have caught 20 women and four brokers on charges of trading in human ova.

Trading in human ova is...