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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 Knight Ridder, Knight Ridder | 05.19.2005

A measure to strengthen conflict-of-interest rules on Proposition 71-funded stem cell research cleared a second legislative hurdle Wednesday, even as...

By David Adam, The Guardian | 05.19.2005
Scientists are developing artificial wombs, sperm and eggs - but will this lead to reproduction in a dish? David Adam...
By San Jose Mercury News, San Jose Mercury News | 05.19.2005

California's new stem-cell institute is poised to begin spending $3 billion in public money for research, but watchdogs are worried...

By Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem Post | 05.18.2005

Couples, even single women, who want to choose the sex of their baby in the early embryonic stage for social...

By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 05.16.2005
There probably wasn't much reason to hope that California's new embryonic stem cell institute, the offspring of perhaps the most...
By Jesse Reynolds, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.15.2005

The authors of last November's successful Proposition 71, the stem- cell research initiative, asked California voters to trust them in...

By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 05.10.2005
Sacramento -- A new state finance panel took its first steps Monday to get some money flowing to the California...
By Agence France-Presse, Agence France-Presse | 05.10.2005

PARIS (AFP) - France inaugurated a specialised agency for approving research on embryonic stem cells and vetting organ donations and...