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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...

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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 Osagie Obasogie, Boston Globe | 08.08.2005

It's a boy! It's a girl! Until the 1970s, these words welcomed virtually every child into the world. In less...

By Paul Elias, Associated Press | 08.05.2005
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- They're being bred now by the millions, the mutants, created to carry the ghastliest of diseases...
By Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer | 08.05.2005

Images of a cute, cloned Afghan hound puppy named Snuppy hit the news wires Tuesday to coos from dog lovers...

By Flagged, Genetic Crossroads | 08.04.2005

The San Francisco Bay Guardian newspaper has named CGS as the "local hero" organization for 2005 in their special "Best...

By Reuters, Reuters | 08.03.2005

SEOUL, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Man can now reproduce his best friend -- South Korean scientists announced on Wednesday they...

By San Francisco Weekly, San Francisco Weekly | 07.27.2005

Nearly nine months after losing at the ballot box, the conservative groups that opposed the California stem cell institute haven't...

By The Guardian, The Guardian (UK) | 07.26.2005

Healthy women could be asked to donate their eggs for cloning research in a controversial bid to speed up the...

By Jesse Reynolds, TomPaine.com | 07.19.2005

Recent developments—both technical and political —have once again brought stem cell research to the front pages of newspapers across the...