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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 Bill McKibben | 11.30.2002

Published by Henry Holt
Copyright 2003

"Right now, all around the world, ten thousand scientists are assembling ten thousand different...

By Antonio Regalado, Wall Street Journal | 11.11.2002

U.S. Cloning Pioneer Resigns To Accept University Position

Antonio Regalado
Wall Street Journal
November 11, 2002

A U.S. scientist who...

By Jesse Reynolds, Z Magazine | 11.01.2002


Enquanto este artigo está sendo redigido, representantes de quase todos os países estão se reunindo nas Nações Unidas para decidir...

By admin | 11.01.2002
Abstracts from presentations at "Sixth World Congress of Bioethics" 

Session Abstract

The new human genetic technologies present a threshold challenge...

By Jesse Reynolds, Z Magazine | 11.01.2002

Mientras escribo este artículo, delegados de todo el mundo se reúnen en la sede de Naciones Unidas para tomar medidas...

By Jesse Reynolds, Z Magazine | 10.31.2002

As this article is being written, delegates from nearly every country are meeting at the United Nations to take the...

By Genetics and Public Policy Center, Genetics and Public Policy Center | 10.15.2002
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