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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 Jamie Shreeve , The New York Times | 04.10.2005

Except for the three million human brain cells injected into his cranium, XO47 is just an average green vervet monkey...

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 04.08.2005
LOS ANGELES _ Hoping to eliminate any perceptions of personal financial benefit from the state's $3 billion stem cell initiative...
By Daniel S. Levine, East Bay Business Times | 04.08.2005
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the Emeryville-based voter-created agency overseeing $3 billion for stem cell research, has adopted interim...
By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 04.07.2005
Conflict-of-interest allegations already are flying against the committee overseeing California's $3 billion stem cell initiative even though the group isn't...
By Peter Aldhous, Nature | 04.07.2005
California's voters have authorized the spending of $3 billion over the next decade on stem-cell research. But will this bonanza...
By Tali Woodward, San Francisco Bay Guardian | 04.06.2005
Members of the panel charged with overseeing California's stem cell research program _ and the $3 billion in taxpayer-financed grants...
By admin Sacramento Bee | 04.06.2005
Stem cell grant advisers must disclose ties

The 29 people who oversee California's $3 billion stem-cell program face a big...
By Jesse Reynolds and Marcy Darnovsky | 04.06.2005

To: The Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

CC: Sen. Deborah Ortiz
Sen. George Runner...