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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 New Scientist, New Scientist | 07.15.2007

MORE than 90 per cent of women undergoing fertility treatments may be getting the wrong doses of the drugs used...

By Editorial, Sacramento Bee | 07.14.2007

To boost their development bid in Yolo County, the Tsakopoulos family has enlisted Robert Klein II, chair of the California...

By Will Saletan, Slate | 07.13.2007

This week, some big thinkers about biotechnology came to Washington for a "progressive bioethics summit." They invited me to go...

By The Readers and Editors of The Scientist, The Scientist | 07.12.2007

Nuclear transfer research encompasses some of the most compelling biological and ethical puzzles of our time. In an online publishing...

By Joseph Pereria, Wall Street Journal | 07.12.2007

Breast-cancer patients carrying two well-known genes linked to the disease have the same survival chances as noncarriers of the genes...

By David Cyranoski, Nature | 07.12.2007

A technique that could sidestep many of the limitations and ethical concerns that plague the production of human embryonic stem...

By HFEA, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority | 07.11.2007

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By Matthew Herper, Forbes | 07.11.2007

Gene celeb Craig Venter is making new breakthroughs at a new institute. Let's hope it doesn't end up like his...