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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 Loretta Arnold, Examiner.com [Raleigh] | 03.17.2011
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue sends a Task Force message within Executive Order No. 83 involving the North Carolina Eugenics...
By Julie Moult, The Daily Mail (UK) | 03.16.2011

Most parents are so grateful to have a healthy baby that the sex of the child is a secondary consideration...

By Henry K. Lee, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.15.2011
A suspect in a 2008 sexual assault of a Santa Cruz coffee-shop worker has been arrested through a relatively new...
By Shira Schoenberg, Concord Monitor | 03.15.2011
State Rep. Martin Harty resigned yesterday, facing outrage from constituents, colleagues and strangers over comments he made endorsing eugenics for...
By Alok Jha, The Observer (UK) | 03.13.2011

It is unclear at exactly what point the phrase "stem cell" entered the vernacular, one of very few scientific terms...

By David Derbyshire, The Daily Mail | 03.12.2011
The first baby with three biological parents could be conceived next year after the Government announced a major review of ...
By Matthew D'Arcy, publicservice.co.uk | 03.11.2011
A deal signed under Tony Blair's government to help the United Arab Emirates build a DNA database of its entire...
By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 03.09.2011
The board overseeing California’s stem cell research funding agency should redefine the role of its chairman and “let the management...