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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 North Jersey Media Group, North Jersey Media Group | 06.19.2005

The church organist filled out a disclosure form.

So did the part-time bartender.

Both were required to disclose any jobs...

By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee | 06.16.2005
The state Senate is unlikely to pursue a November ballot measure imposing stricter controls on California's new stem cell agency...
By NBC 30, NBC 30 | 06.15.2005

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Gov. M. Jodi Rell Wednesday signed into law an act permitting stem cell research and banning the...

By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 06.14.2005
Suit asserting embryo rights seeks to block research grants.

LOS ANGELES - A new lawsuit challenging the destruction of human...
By admin San Francisco Chronicle | 06.13.2005
IN APPROVING Proposition 71 last year, Californians agreed to invest $3 billion of public money in stem-cell research.

It is...
By admin Sacramento Bee | 06.08.2005
Senate can help reform stem cell program

California's Senate now has the choice of killing or saving a measure to...
By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 06.07.2005
Sacramento -- Directors of the California Proposition 71 stem cell program met with state lawmakers Monday in hopes of scuttling...
By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 06.06.2005
Citrus Heights lawyer Dana Cody is no stranger to controversy.

As executive director of the Life Legal Defense Foundation, she's...