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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, GeneWatch | 06.30.2001

While the prospect of genetically "redesigned" people challenges humanity as a whole, it particularly threatens groups that historically have been...

By Mark Gabrish Conlan, Zenger's Newsmagazine | 06.27.2001

"O brave new world, that has such people in it … "
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest, quoted by Aldous...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Paul Billings, and Andrew Imparato | 06.21.2001

By Alexander Morgan Capron, LL.B | 06.19.2001

Speaking as Commissioner, National Bioethics Advisory Commission

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am Alexander Capron, and I have been invited...
By IPSOS/Reid, IPSOS/Reid | 06.01.2001

Preferred cloning policy:

 

complete ban cloning only on human embryos no restrictions on cloning
42 39 17
  • Source: "Americans...
By Gallup, Gallup | 05.10.2001

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

By Gallup, Gallup | 05.10.2001

This is a compilation of data from the annual Gallup survey of moral issues, but contrasting the opinions of the...

By Fox News, Fox News | 04.18.2001

As you may know, scientists have made advances in cloning, where they can reproduce a whole animal from a single...