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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 Gina Maranto, Biopolitical Times guest contributor | 12.06.2010
Since its legalization in 2002, commercial surrogacy in India has grown into a multimillion-dollar industry, drawing couples from around the...
By Rory Harrington, DairyReporter.com | 12.06.2010
The UK stance was spelt out in a report due to go before the country’s Food Standards Agency (DSA) tomorrow...
By David Jensen, California Stem Cell Report | 12.05.2010
Is the re-election of Robert Klein as chairman of the California stem cell agency a foregone conclusion? A significant number...
By Eric Hoffman, Biopolitical Times guest contributor, Biopolitical Times | 12.02.2010
On November 16 and 17, President Obama’s Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues announced its draft recommendations on the...
By Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Anthropology Today | 12.01.2010
In mid-May 2010, just as the spring semester was winding to a close, I opened an email from the Executive...
By David Jensen, The Sacramento Bee | 11.28.2010

Lured by visions of nearly magical medical solutions for everything from cancer to Alzheimer's, California voters six years ago approved...

By AP, Associated Press | 11.24.2010

President Obama on Wednesday ordered a vast review to ensure the ethical treatment of people who take part in research...

By Pete Shanks, Biopolitical Times | 11.23.2010

This past weekend supplied several different examples of the way that commercial prospects affect important decisions about scientific research. What...