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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 Palm Beach Post, Palm Beach Post | 09.22.2005

WEST PALM BEACH _ Florida would give $200 million over 10 years to human embryonic stem-cell research under a constitutional...

By Fitchburg Sentinel and Enterprise, Fitchburg Sentinel and Enterprise | 09.22.2005

BOSTON -- Although there was little action at the first meeting of the state's newly-appointed Biomedical Research Advisory Council, members...

By Capitol Weekly, Capitol Weekly | 09.22.2005

The biggest question surrounding stem cell research in California right now isn_t whether it will eventually cure devastating health problems...

By The Economist, The Economist | 09.22.2005

MEDICAL discoveries often excite great hopes_and stem cells are no exception. They can transform themselves into other types of tissue...

By Sacramento Bee, Sacramento Bee | 09.18.2005

Robert Klein II, the self-appointed czar of California's stem cell institute, has created a completely unworkable system for dispensing $3...

By Capitol Weekly, Capitol Weekly | 09.15.2005

The organizations created to fund stem cell research in California announced
their first grants last week, despite the fact that...

By Viginia Commonwealth University, Viginia Commonwealth University | 09.14.2005

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By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 09.12.2005
Sherry Lansing, the first woman to head a major movie studio, couldn't even get a glass of water from the...