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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 Andrew Pollack, New York Times | 01.29.2008
Can a woman's period save her life years later?

A company called Cryo-Cell International says that it can - that...
By Colin Nickerso, Boston Globe | 01.28.2008

From what is now considered medical waste might be fashioned bio-treasure: stem cells able to form into any of the...

By Typically Spanish, Typically Spanish | 01.24.2008

The Spanish Commission for the Control of the Donation and Use of Human Stem Cells, a body which depends on...

By David Biello, Scientific American | 01.23.2008
The number of sequenced human genomes will soon swell to more than 1,000 as part of a new international research...
By Jennifer LeClaire, Sci-Tech Today | 01.18.2008
On Thursday, a small biotech company made controversial stem-cell research waves with an announcement that it has cloned human embryos...
By Terri Somers, San Diego Union Tribune | 01.18.2008

It was over martinis that a San Diego fertility specialist decided to start Stemagen, the eight-person biotechnology company that yesterday...

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 01.18.2008
Scientists at a California company reported yesterday that they had created the first mature cloned human embryos from single skin...
By Editorial, Investor's Business Daily | 01.18.2008

It's the morning after the night before in the Golden State. Home prices are plummeting, and unemployment has jumped to...