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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 Alison Motluk Celeste Biever, New Scientist | 12.10.2008
DRUGS designed to induce ovulation seem to have increased the risk of uterine cancer in a group of women who...
By Thomas Frank , The Wall Street Journal | 12.10.2008
At long last, our national love affair with the rich is coming to a close. The moguls whose exploits we...
By Ron Leuty, San Francisco Business Times | 12.10.2008
California's stem cell agency has agreed to start paying a salary to Chairman Robert Klein, who has served unpaid since...
By Melinda Beck, The Wall Street Journal | 12.09.2008
Here's another sign of the tough economic times: Some clinics are reporting a surge in the number of women applying...
By Bernadette Tansey, San Francisco Chronicle | 12.08.2008
(12-07) 19:25 PST -- Three job candidates sit in a quiet room, straining over a tough exam. But one of...
By Terri Somers, The Union Tribune | 12.06.2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has expressed "deep concern" about the state stem cell institute's plans to set the salaries for the...
By Sarah Lyall, The New York Times | 12.04.2008
LONDON — The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously on Thursday that Britain’s policy of gathering and storing the...
By McClatchy Newspapers, McClatchy Newspapers | 12.04.2008

Duke University study shows that 41% of patients who finished fertility treatment consider donating embryos

The US debate over embryonic...