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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 Megan Garvey, Los Angeles Times | 11.22.2004
To keep researchers from being lured away, other funding efforts are in the works. 

As California moves quickly toward setting...
By Michael Cook, The Age | 11.22.2004
They're grabbing headlines, but do these "experts" say anything worth listening to, asks Michael Cook.

For a small country, Australia...
By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 11.20.2004
In Minnesota, pigs are being born with human blood in their veins.

In Nevada, there are sheep whose livers and...
By Nick Wadhams, Associated Press | 11.19.2004
UNITED NATIONS - U.N. diplomats abandoned contentious efforts to draft a treaty that would outlaw human cloning and will likely...
By Associated Press, Associated Press | 11.19.2004

Gov. Jim Doyle unveiled plans to invest nearly $750 million to bolster stem cell research and other scientific efforts in...

By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 11.18.2004
UC names five executives to oversight committee; advisory group is started.
LOS ANGELES - As the University of California named...
By Associated Press, Associated Press | 11.18.2004

UNITED NATIONS (AP) _ Italy has offered a compromise on human cloning that seeks common ground among U.N. member states...

By BBC News, BBC News | 11.17.2004

Opponents of human therapeutic cloning are beginning a legal challenge to the granting of the first UK licence permitting the...