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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 stuff.co.nz, Stuff (New Zealand) | 10.04.2004

Public consultation begins this week on proposed guidelines covering the testing of human embryos for serious inherited genetic conditions.


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By Charles Burress, San Francisco Chronicle | 09.30.2004
The brash young science of genetic engineering, like a newly licensed teenager behind the wheel, is driving civilization toward "the...
By Michelle L. Brandt, Stanford Medicine Magazine | 09.30.2004
Stanford physician Michael Lyons, MD, is not a stem cell researcher. But when the Connecticut House Speaker recently called him...
By Tali Woodward, San Francisco Bay Guardian | 09.29.2004
DON REED HAS a favor to ask. His son Roman has been in a wheelchair ever since he was paralyzed...
By GeneWatch UK, GeneWatch UK | 09.29.2004

Today, GeneWatch UK has written to the chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), Suzi Leather, asking for...

By Patricia Reaney, Reuters | 09.28.2004
Scientists who created Dolly the sheep, the world's first cloned mammal, have applied for a licence to clone human embryos...
By Sydney Morning Herald, Sydney Morning Herald | 09.26.2004

An Australian couple who created medical history and sparked a storm of controversy over their decision to have a "designer"...

By Patricia Reaney, Today online | 09.25.2004
Singaporeans head to Malaysia for designer babies

THEY badly wanted to have a child. But there was a chance their...