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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 NBC News/WSJ, NBC / Wall Street Journal | 06.16.1999

For each item I read, please tell me whether this is something you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or...

By Casey Walker, Wild Duck Review | 05.31.1999
Richard Hayes Biography: is a doctoral candidate in Energy and Resources at U.C. Berkeley. His work focuses on long-term...
By Paul R Billings; Ruth Hubbard; Stuart A. Newman, The Lancet | 05.29.1999
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Abstract: Genetic manipulation of germ cells should be prohibited. Alterations of the genetic code...

By Rick Weiss, The Washington Post | 05.10.1999

BEAVERTON, Ore.--Tanja Dominko focuses her microscope on a glistening monkey egg recently retrieved from a female Rhesus's ripened ovary.

Nudging...

By Pew Research Center for People and the Press, Pew Research Center for People and the Press | 04.06.1999

 

 

 

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Has the cloning of sheep...
By Michael D. Lemonick, Time | 01.11.1999

Until just a few years ago, making a baby boy or a baby girl was pretty much a hit-or-miss affair...

By Sharon Begley, Newsweek | 11.09.1998

It is only a matter of time. One day--a day probably no more distant than the first wedding anniversary of...

By Robert Taylor, New Scientist | 10.01.1998

If you put your ear to the tracks, you can hear the train coming.

In conference halls around the world...