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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 Gina Kolata, The New York Times | 02.15.2004

For four years, Richard Arvedon has been a passionate advocate for therapeutic cloning.

The reason is his 6-year-old daughter, Emma...

By admin Singapore Straits Times | 02.14.2004

Cloning surprise sparks raging controversy

Singapore Straits Times
February 14, 2004

A day after South Korean scientists took the world...

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 02.13.2004
S. Korean Scientists Describe Cloning

Rick Weiss
Washington Post
February 13, 2004

Scientists, ethicists and politicians scrambled yesterday to absorb...

By Rosie Mestel, Los Angeles Times | 02.13.2004

Clone Is One Step in Extended Process

Rosie Mestel
Los Angeles Times
February 13, 2004

The report of a successfully...

By Andrew Pollack, The New York Times | 02.13.2004

In cloning human embryos and extracting universal stem cells, scientists in South Korea have taken a big step toward a...

By Richard Hayes, TomPaine.com | 02.12.2004

In the late 1950s, soon after Watson and Crick had discovered DNA's structure, scientists began predicting that someday we'd be...

By Denise Grady, The New York Times | 02.12.2004
Debate Over Cloning in U.S. Remains Intense

Denise Grady
The New York Times
February 12, 2004

Human cloning - and...

By ORC for AAVS, ORC for AAVS | 02.08.2004

Do you favor or oppose the cloning of companion animals, such as dogs or cats?

 

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