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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 Ronald Bailey, Reason | 10.11.2011
Last week researchers announced that they had created stem cell lines using human eggs for the first time. The goal...
By Anneli Rufus, Alternet | 10.11.2011

To offset law-school expenses, Ben Seisler spent three years donating sperm to a Virginia sperm bank. He recently learned that...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 10.06.2011
Scientists announced Wednesday that they had created stem cells from human clones, adding DNA from adult cells to the genetic...
By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 10.06.2011
Scientists announced Wednesday that they had created stem cells from human clones, adding DNA from adult cells to the genetic...
By Editorial, Nature | 10.06.2011

When, in 2004, Woo Suk Hwang claimed to have produced a stem-cell line derived from an embryonic human clone, his...

By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times | 10.06.2011
Scientists announced Wednesday that they had created stem cells from human clones, adding DNA from adult cells to the genetic...
By Greg Moran, Sign On San Diego | 10.05.2011
Three women who have pleaded guilty to conspiracy in what authorities said was a years-long illegal baby-selling scheme also defrauded...
By Nicholas Wade, New York Times | 10.05.2011
Stem cell research has had many ups and downs, but a stream of setbacks had left researchers almost back at...