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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 Sarah-Kate Templeton, The Times (UK) | 05.11.2008
Scientists have created what is believed to be the first genetically modified (GM) human embryo.

A team from Cornell University...
By Anne C. Mulkern , Denver Post | 05.09.2008
Legislation that would bolster embryonic stem-cell research shouldn't be used as a political pawn in November's election, the Republican sponsor...
By Roger Highfield, The Telegraph (UK) | 05.09.2008
What do we mean by being human? At what point does a life wink into being? What choices can be...
By Gallup, Gallup | 05.08.2008

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

By Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 05.08.2008
California has awarded $271 million in grants to build 12 stem cell research centers in the state, even as one...
By Mary Engel, Los Angeles Times | 05.07.2008
California's voter-created stem cell institute is expected to award $227 million in grants today to seed a laboratory building spree...
By Jason Felch and Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times | 05.03.2008

Police found the naked body of Diana Sylvester near her Christmas tree.

The 22-year-old San Francisco nurse had been sexually...

By Associated Press, Associated Press | 05.01.2008

A California-based stem cell research company will get $589,000 in state grants to open a New Jersey facility and create...