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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.

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"If proven to be safe, we believe preventive gene editing could be one of the most important health technologies of...

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By Associated Foreign Press, Associated Foreign Press | 08.05.2016

Research that mixes human cells into animal embryos could get US government funds for the first time under a new ...

By Fran Quigley, Truthout | 08.05.2016
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Don Reichmuth survived prostate cancer once before, back in 2007, so his physician was concerned when tests recently...

By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 08.05.2016
Untitled Documentrenewed legislative effort in California to pay women for handing over their eggs for research is attracting...
By Kathy Robertson, Sacramento Bee | 08.05.2016
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Sacramento elementary-school teacher Debi Lawson recently finished a second job. Like teaching, it included prep and recovery time...

By Ed Silverman, STAT | 08.04.2016
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Even though various federal laws were designed to promote clinical trials for testing products in children, a notable...

By Deborah Ortiz, Sacramento Bee | 08.04.2016
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Assembly Bill 2531 is working its way through the Legislature and would expand the market in women’s egg...

By Kimberly Leonard, US News & World Report | 08.04.2016
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A recent study revealed that sheep created from the same biological matter used to make Dolly, the first...