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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 BBC News, BBC News | 07.17.2004
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is to debate its policy on creating babies who can help sick siblings...
By Richard Hayes | 07.15.2004

Presentation at Inequality, Democracy and the New Human Biotechnologies: A Threshold Challenge for the 21st Century, New York, NY [...

By Beth Whitehouse, Newsday | 07.14.2004

Up until now, Sharla Miller's life could pretty much be titled "My Three Sons." Nature dealt her boy after boy...

By Janet Kim, The Village Voice | 07.13.2004
Entertainment plays with our aversion to conformity via bad science, i.e., playing with nature (see The Stepford Wives; I, Robot...
By Gallup, Gallup | 07.01.2004

Is _____ morally acceptable?

 

   Yes No
 Cloning animals  30  
 Cloning humans  8  
  • Source: "Can a "Reagan...
By admin | 06.17.2004
 

"[G]erm-line genetic alteration [poses] many risks and potential harms, without any clear benefit to any individual. It…jeopardizes, rather than...

By Beth Whitehouse, Newsday | 06.14.2004

Up until now, Sharla Miller's life could pretty much be titled "My Three Sons." Nature dealt her boy after boy...