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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 John Lauerman, Bloomberg Press | 11.06.2008
Nov. 6 (Bloomberg) -- Kari Stefansson, DeCode Genetics Inc.'s chief executive officer, made good on a promise to create new...
By Judith Tan, The Straits Times | 11.05.2008
THE Ministry of Health supports the principle set by the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC) to compensate women who donate their...
By CNN, CNN | 11.04.2008

Japanese scientists have produced clones of mice that have been dead and frozen for 16 years -- a feat that...

By Megha Satyanarayana, Free Press | 11.04.2008
A proposal to loosen restrictions on embryonic stem cell research in Michigan has passed according to analysis of key precinct...
By Marcy Darnovsky, Mother Jones blog | 11.03.2008

Just before the world's financial system hit the skids, the New Yorker's Talk of the Town and the New York...

By David Stout, The New York Times | 11.03.2008
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to review an Alaska rape case to determine whether a defendant has...
By Stephanie Innes, Arizona Daily Star | 11.02.2008

The advertisements are enticing, particularly in a flagging economy: Young women may earn thousands of dollars by selling their eggs...

By Alastair Jamieson, Telegraph | 10.30.2008

Prospective parents are being offered in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) and a type of embryo screening called Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) which...