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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 Philippine Daily Inquirer, Philippine Daily Inquirer | 06.26.2008

The country’s Muslim clerics and food experts said they were not yet prepared to adopt a ruling on whether or...

By Craig Borley, New Zealand Herald | 06.25.2008
Selecting the sex of babies goes back to the Greek Empire and will get cheaper, easier and harder to regulate...
By The Canadian Press, The Canadian Press | 06.25.2008

MONTREAL - The Quebec Court of Appeal has ruled that Ottawa overstepped its authority when drawing up laws on assisted...

By Josh Margolin and Ted Sherman, The Star-Ledger | 06.22.2008

Eight months after state officials broke ground on New Jersey's new center for stem cell research, the once-heralded $150 million...

By The Bureau of National Affairs, The Bureau of National Affairs [Quotes CGS's Richard Hayes] | 06.21.2008

Supersoldiers, superintelligence, superanimals, and supercomputers are a possible progression of today's genetic research, which is why an international consensus on...

By BBC, BBC | 06.21.2008

A report by the UK charity says increasing numbers of female foetuses were being aborted and baby girls deliberately neglected...

By Clive Cookson, Financial Times | 06.20.2008

Scientists at Newcastle University in the UK have already produced almost 300 hybrid embryos, by inserting human DNA into cow...

By Deborah Smith, The Sydney Morning Herald | 06.20.2008
SYDNEY scientists are confident they will be the first in the world to create cloned human embryos after the announcement...