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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 Judy Norsigian, Boston Globe | 02.25.2005
THERE IS a disturbing lack of attention to the risks to women's health posed by the advent of embryo cloning...
By Fred Reed, Washington Times | 02.24.2005
Sometimes the most important clouds on the technological horizon don't get much ink.
One of these is the "genetic engineering"...
By Paul Elias, Associated Press | 02.23.2005
SAN FRANCISCO - Politically conservative public interest groups filed lawsuits Tuesday seeking to invalidate the $3 billion stem cell research...
By Leyla Linton, Associated Press | 02.23.2005
UNITED NATIONS - A bitterly divided U.N. committee approved a resolution calling on nations to ban all forms of human...
By Sharon Begley, Wall Street Journal | 02.21.2005
Katherine High thought she was making progress. She and her team had managed to take the human gene that produces...
By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 02.18.2005
A decorated veteran of the country's public health battles -- dating back to the founding of the Medicare system --...
By Troy Duster, Science | 02.18.2005
Alfred North Whitehead warned many years ago about "the fallacy of misplaced concreteness" [HN1] (1), by which he...
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 02.17.2005
Clone a cat, go to jail -- or at least pay a fine.

That is the goal of animal welfare...