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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 Mark Sappenfield, Christian Science Monitor | 10.25.2004
Prop. 71 would award $3 billion for research, trumping Bush's go-slow approach.

OAKLAND, CALIF. _ Next Tuesday, California voters could...
By Daniel Sarewitz, Los Angeles Times | 10.25.2004
Proposition 71 would cut the link between science and democracy.
Daniel Sarewitz is a professor of science and society at...
By Soledad Jarquín Edgar, Cimac Noticias | 10.25.2004
La directora del Programa de Género, Justicia y Genética Humana del Centro de Genética y Sociedad, Sujatha Jesudason, advirtió sobre...
By Soledad Jarquin Edgar, Cimac Noticias | 10.25.2004

La bioética debe prevalecer ante el avance de las investigaciones científicas con seres humanos, porque el riesgo es ensanchar aún...

By Colum Lynch, Washington Post | 10.22.2004
UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 21 -- Britain, Japan, South Korea, India and scores of other close U.S. allies sought to head...
By Daniel Callahan, San Diego Union Tribune | 10.22.2004
In less than two weeks, California voters will decide whether they will buy what is offered in the $20 million...
By Ellen Goodman, Syndicated column | 10.22.2004
Do you remember when Ron Reagan ended his Democratic convention speech with a rallying cry for political science: "Whatever else...
By Sean McCourt, SFSU Xpress | 10.21.2004
The debate over California_s Proposition 71 is intensifying as election day draws closer, and the parties for and against the...