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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...

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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 Khaleej Times, Khaleej Times | 11.12.2007

Pet owners in Dubai can now store stem cells of their favourite animals and get them reused at a later...

By Roger Highfield, The Telegraph (UK) | 11.12.2007

The prospect of being able to clone human embyros efficiently for medical treatments has been raised by a technical breakthrough...

By David Jensen, Sacramento Bee | 11.11.2007

Three years ago, California voters launched the state on a $3 billion journey involving the origins of life, cutting-edge science...

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union-Tribune | 11.11.2007
In 2004, New Jersey became the first state to use taxpayer money for stem cell research, beating California to the...
By Terrence Dopp, Bloomberg | 11.07.2007
New Jersey voters rejected a $450 million bond measure to fund stem-cell research in a defeat for Democratic Governor Jon...
By Roger Highfield, UK Telegraph | 11.07.2007

A mouse has befriended its mortal enemy, the cat, after scientists used genetic methods to tinker with its response to...

By RON WINSLOW, Wall Street Journal | 11.06.2007

What are the chances that you will get heart disease, or Alzheimer's? Or that you'll get fat? New genetic tests...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Philadelphia Inquirer | 11.05.2007

James Watson has left his post as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in disgrace. He's apologized for questioning the...