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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 Lindsay Moss, The Scotsman | 04.07.2008
STEM cell research, we have long been told, should pave the way for revolutionary new treatments to help millions of...
By The Times/Populus, The Times/Populus | 04.04.2008

Medical researchers want to create embryos that are mostly human, but which contain a little animal material, because they think...

By Paul Gelsinger and Adil E. Shamoo, Hastings Center Report | 04.04.2008

It has been more than eight years since Jesse Gelsinger, Paul's son, died in a gene therapy clinical trial. But...

By Jesse Reynolds, Bioethics Forum | 04.04.2008

The embryonic stem cell research controversy may finally be moving to a new stage, and perhaps closer to a good...

By Mike Antonucci, San Jose Mercury News | 04.04.2008
Stores already are putting up their gift displays for Mother's Day. And consumers have turned their fashion attention to the...
By Brandon Keim, Wired | 04.03.2008
Think twice before you act on the recommendations of a genetic test.

That's the warning from genetic-industry watchdogs, who note...
By Alok Jha, The Guardian | 04.02.2008

Britain's first human-animal hybrid embryos have been created, forming a crucial first step, scientists believe, towards a supply of stem...

By Randolph Schmid, Associated Press | 04.01.2008
Having sons is important to many Asian cultures, and now U.S. families from those groups seem to be asserting the...