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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 Tom Abate , San Francisco Chronicle | 09.25.2000
Biotechnology has been erupting onto the news pages lately, but somehow the headlines seem to highlight the trivial while missing...
By Eric Lander, PhD, The New York Times | 09.12.2000

Labor Day has come and gone, and I am chagrined to find that I haven't made it through my summer...

By Ralph Brave, Salon | 06.27.2000
A young couple having difficulty conceiving a child undergoes tests to pinpoint the problem. As they sit in the doctor's...
By Ralph Brave, Baltimore City Paper | 06.21.2000

Any day now, the Rockville-based Celera Genomics Group and the National Institutes of Health will announce that they have achieved...

By Daniel Q. Haney, Associated Press | 05.05.2000

Suppose parents-to-be could guarantee their children will grow up to be unusually healthy. Or extra smart. Or maybe just a...

By PricewaterhouseCoopers, PricewaterhouseCoopers | 03.01.2000
Are opposed to scientists making a genetically identical copy of a human being.*
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By admin Genetic Crossroads | 02.16.2000
Say "No" To Germline Engineering
An open letter to participants at the Asilomar Symposium on Science, Ethics and Society

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By Richard Hayes, Genetic Crossroads | 02.04.2000

From Multinational Monitor, Jan/February2000 http://www.essential.org/monitor>

"Scientists have long speculated that parents would someday be able
to genetically engineer...