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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 Marcy Darnovsky, Tikkun | 06.30.2002

July/August 2002

As Raymond Barglow's and Jeremy Rifkin's articles demonstrate, thoughtful people of good conscience and progressive politics may come...

By Tom Abate, San Francisco Chronicle | 06.17.2002

We remember Solomon as the wise man who once settled a dispute between two women who claimed the same child...

By Richard Hayes, Christian Science Monitor | 06.10.2002

After a year of intense debate, the US Senate is set to vote on human cloning. The two constituencies most...

By Richard Hayes, Seattle Times | 06.03.2002

Cloning and the new technologies of human genetic modification are among the most powerful and consequential technologies ever developed. If...

By Herr Joschka Fischer | 06.03.2002
 

Towards a Global Bioethic?

Herr Joschka Fischer, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs,

Prepared for the Franco-German Forum, Federal...

By Denise Gellene, Los Angeles Times | 05.10.2002

Forty Nobel laureates and patient-advocacy groups have lobbied senators to allow human cloning for medical research.

Thomas Okarma, too, has...

By Gallup, Gallup | 05.06.2002

Do you favor or oppose each of the following? How about...
Approve
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No opinion
cloning of endangered species to...
By CBS News, CBS News | 05.01.2002
 
Yes
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Is it possible to clone human beings?
76
18
Should scientists be allowed to clone humans?
11...