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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 Ralph Brave, Baltimore City Paper | 09.01.2004
On Friday, March 5, 2004, the members of the Maryland House of Delegates' Health and Government Operations Committee gathered...
By Tim Radford, science editor, The Guardian (UK) | 08.30.2004

Britain's leading scientists today urge the United Nations to ban cloning of babies but leave open the door for cloning...

By Suzanne Smith, ABC (Australia) | 08.30.2004

TONY JONES: Several private IVF clinics in New South Wales are charging couples $12,000 to allow them to select the...

By Tina Stevens, San Francisco Chronicle | 08.29.2004
Come November, Californians will vote on Proposition 71, a $3 billion initiative to finance publicly stem-cell research that promises cures...
By Julie Robotham and Deborah Smith, Sydney Morning Herald | 08.28.2004

O'Connell Street in Sydney is alpha territory. Queuing in the immaculate lift lobbies of the office towers near Circular Quay...

By Nicholas D. Kristof, The New York Times | 08.25.2004
For a glimpse of what post-human athletes may look like beginning in the 2012 or 2016 Olympics, take a look...
By Gregory M. Lamb, Christian Science Monitor | 08.23.2004
It would make today's "cat and mouse" detection of drug-taking athletes seem trivial. It would produce excellence without effort, challenging...
By Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times | 08.23.2004
President Bush may have unwittingly done the stem cell research community a big favor in 2001 when he outlawed federal...