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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 Laura Mecoy, Sacramento Bee | 10.16.2004
The campaign to create the nation's largest-ever state-funded scientific research program is finding its strongest financial support among the multimillionaire...
By Carl T. Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.15.2004
Financing, not ethics, causing some to take closer looks

Some cracks are forming in what had appeared to be a...
By Clea Benson, Sacramento Bee | 10.15.2004
Though the California Nurses Association officially favors embryonic stem cell research, the organization Thursday announced its opposition to Proposition 71...
By Stephen Pincock, The Scientist | 10.13.2004
Observers say the outcome of a vote on cloning next week is too close to call

The United Nations (UN)...
By Associated Press, Associated Press | 10.13.2004

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Harvard University scientists have asked the university's ethical review board for permission to produce cloned human embryos...

By Stephen S. Hall, New York Times | 10.12.2004
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, England - Every year, about 500 women come to the Newcastle Fertility Center, an assisted reproduction clinic in the...
By Associated Press, Associated Press | 10.11.2004

A controversial measure that would provide $3 billion in state bond money to pay for human embryonic stem cell research...

By Leonie Sherman, North Gate News Online | 10.11.2004
BERKELEY -- Two leading thinkers in the field of genetic engineering told an audience at UC Berkeley last night that...