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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...

Measuring a skull
By Aubrey Clayton, Nautilus | 10.28.2020

Cicely D. Fawcett and Alice Lee, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

In early 2018, officials at University College London...

By Ari Ne’eman, New York Times | 10.28.2020

Last week, the Supreme Court acquiesced to another attack on the voting rights of all Americans. In a 5-3 decision...

Disabled people socializing
By Laura Hercher, The Beagle Has Landed | 10.27.2020

Rosemarie Garland-Thomson discusses disability as an identity and the conflicts raised by genetic testing and counseling on Laura Hercher’s podcast, ...

By Jude Casimir, Wear Your Voice [cites CGS' Marcy Darnovsky] | 10.27.2020

Henrietta Lacks visited John Hopkins Hospital in 1951, complaining of vaginal bleeding. A mother of five children, Lacks was diagnosed by gynecologist...

California flag
By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT | 10.26.2020

LOS ANGELES — This Election Day, California voters are being asked to replenish funding for the state’s ambitious stem cell...

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By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 10.26.2020

The first president of the California stem cell agency, Zach Hall, says that he would vote against the $5.5...

Osagie K. Obasogie
By Teresa Watanabe, Los Angeles Times | 10.26.2020

In late 2018, UC Berkeley bioethics professor Osagie K. Obasogie received a campus email about a research fund available to...

Stem cell injection
By Pete Shanks, Capitol Weekly | 10.26.2020

At a time of budget crisis, Proposition 14 commits California to spending $5 billion (plus interest) that we don’t have...