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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 Sandi Dolbee, San Diego Union Tribune | 10.10.2005
Anyone with children knows what that first year brings. Learning to crawl. Gingerly standing up. Trying to walk. The same...
By The Daily Californian, The Daily Californian | 10.04.2005

UC likes living on the technological edge. So when California allocated funds for stem cell research as mandated by Proposition...

By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.01.2005
Governor says bill 'in direct conflict' with part of Prop. 71

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has vetoed a bill that would...
By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.30.2005

Much of the California electorate was sold last year on the idea that human embryonic stem cells might be turned...

By Steve Johnson, San Jose Mercury News | 09.29.2005
INSTITUTIONS GETTING GRANTS HAVE LINKS TO INDUSTRY Given drug company ties to universities and other institutions likely to get grants...
By Ralph Brave, Sacramento News & Review | 09.29.2005

"Congratulations, it's a Viking!" shouts a Danish sperm-bank advertisement in a recent fertility journal.

"Donor Egg Immediately Available," reads the...

By Life News, LifeNews.com | 09.28.2005

Tallahassee, FL (LifeNews.com) -- While advocates of embryonic stem cell research are pushing a ballot proposal to spend state funds...

By Pete Shanks, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.26.2005

Baseball fans around the nation have been conducting their own straw poll about human enhancement, and they don't like it...