News

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 Denise Gellene, Los Angeles Times | 11.07.2004
Will last week's $3-billion California stem cell initiative one day grow new business?

The massive bond measure known as Proposition...
By Mike Schwartz, The Press Enterprise | 11.06.2004
Some say elite of stem-cell world can be lured to area
Fueled by visions of Prop. 71 dollars and high-tech...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 11.04.2004
A male achievement that is perhaps insufficiently celebrated is that with every heartbeat a man generates 1,000 sperm, each of...
By Tim Simmers, Oakland Tribune | 11.04.2004
Foes who support research worry about industry 'giveaway'


Biotechnology leaders and academics embraced Tuesday's passage of the
$3 billion bond...
By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 11.04.2004
Let the scramble for the cash begin.

By approving a proposition Tuesday that will make $3 billion in state funds...

By Elizabeth Weise and Dan Vergano, USA Today | 11.04.2004
California voters sent a clear message in favor of embryonic stem cell research to Washington on Tuesday, backing a bond...
By Mary F. Albert, San Francisco Examiner | 11.04.2004
Stem cell research in California received a $3 billion boost Tuesday night, when Californians voted decisively in favor of Proposition...
By Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 11.04.2004
With the clock already ticking for those suffering from debilitating diseases, supporters of the $3 billion stem cell bond measure...