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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...

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

By Bradley J. Fikes, UT San Diego | 05.29.2014
A potentially groundbreaking trial to treat spinal cord injuries with tissue grown from human embryonic stem cells will resume, after...
By GEN, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology News | 05.29.2014

Policy specialists from the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), the University of Virginia, and EMBO released a report that...

By Japan Times, The Japan Times | 05.28.2014

OSAKA – Embattled scientist Haruko Obokata has agreed to retract one of two STAP cell research papers from the journal...

By Miriam Zoll, PBS | 05.27.2014

In a recent PBS “To the Contrary”show about the infertility industry, host Bonnie Erbe` asked: Why did Miriam Zoll...

By Justine Griffin, Sarasota Herald-Tribune | 05.25.2014

Editor's note: Inspired to act by a childhood loss, Sarasota Herald-Tribune staff writer Justine Griffin became an egg donor and...

By Xavier Symons, BioEdge | 05.23.2014
An important question in contemporary bioethics concerns the role of genetic and neurobiological determinism in crime. What role do genes...
By John Farrell, Forbes | 05.23.2014
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One thing the recent cloning breakthroughs have highlighted is the lack of engagement with the issue from the...