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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 Judith Levine, World Watch | 08.01.2002

Lo Que La Modificacion Genetica Humana Significa Para La Mujer
(y El Rol de la Mujer Norteamericana)

Judith Levine
Traducido...

By Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal | 07.25.2002

Ensuring Your Baby Will Be Healthy: Embryo Screening Test Gains in Popularity and Controversy; Choosing a Child's Gender

Amy...

By Aaron Zitner, The Los Angeles Times | 07.23.2002

She had the name picked out since high school: Logann Rae, taken from a soap opera. She had two dolls...

By Richard Hayes, Worldwatch | 07.01.2002

July/August 2002

The new human genetic technologies are arguably the most consequential technologies ever developed. Many applications have great potential...

By Tom Athanasiou and Marcy Darnovsky, WorldWatch | 07.01.2002

July/August 2002

The atmosphere. The oceans and fresh waters. The land itself, and the fruits and grains our forebears bred...

By Bill McKibben, WorldWatch | 06.30.2002
July / August 2002

It's not as if environmentalists really need something new to worry about. The planet's temperature is...

By Michael Dorsey, World Watch | 06.30.2002
On a not too distant horizon, advances in human biotechnology may enable us to engineer the specific genetic makeup of...
By Nadine Gordimer, World Watch | 06.30.2002

Last spring World Watch interviewed South African writer Nadine Gordimer on her concerns about human genetic engineering.

World Watch...