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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.

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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 Rick Weiss, Center for American Progress | 12.04.2008
The incoming Obama administration will soon have the opportunity to reassert U.S. scientific leadership in two of the most exciting...
By Mass High Tech, Mass High Tech | 12.02.2008

Worcester biotech Advanced Cell Technology Inc. and Korean biotech CHA Biotech Co. Ltd. have formed a new stem cell technology...

By Juliet Macur, New York Times | 11.30.2008
BOULDER, Colo. — When Donna Campiglia learned recently that a genetic test might be able to determine which sports suit...
By Bernadette Tansey, San Francisco Chronicle | 11.29.2008

Stem cell research advocates have waited nearly eight years for the policy change President-elect Barack Obama has signaled he'll make...

By Gautum Naik, Wall Street Journal | 11.29.2008
Scientists are making strides toward designing noninvasive tests that can tell whether a fetus suffers from inherited disorders such as...
By Alex Kuczynski, The New York Times | 11.28.2008
At 31 weeks, my baby was kicking and stretching. On the sonogram screen, I could see that he was doing...
By Michael Kahn, Reuters | 11.27.2008
European regulators on Thursday ruled against allowing a patent on developing human embryonic stem cells, a decision that could stifle...
By Viginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Commonwealth University | 11.24.2008

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