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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 Jesse Reynolds, Genetic Crossroads | 06.29.2007

Here in the United States, political maneuverings around embryonic stem cell research made headlines throughout June. But this was little...

Injection of egg
By Simon Caldwell, Catholic Online | 06.27.2007

LONDON (CNS) – Human embryos injected with animal cells, or chimeras, should be accorded human status under proposals to be...

By William Saletan, Washington Post | 06.25.2007

If you've been laughing at those Neanderthal presidential candidates who still don't believe in evolution, it's time to sober up...

By Reuters, Reuters | 06.24.2007

WASHINGTON -- Researchers at a U.S. company trying to push the margins of stem cell research said on Friday they...

By Bo-Mi Lim, Associated Press | 06.22.2007

From the crack of dawn until late at night, stem cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk is at work in the lab...

By Rob Taylor, Reuters | 06.22.2007

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Human therapeutic cloning has moved a step closer after U.S. researchers said they had successfully created embyonic...

By Christine Vestal, Stateline.org | 06.22.2007

University of Michigan stem cell scientist Sean Morrison recently got a telephone call from a woman offering to donate her...

By Larry Rohter, New York Times | 06.21.2007

KYOWÃ, Brazil - As the Karitiana Indians remember it, the first researchers to draw their blood came here in the...