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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.

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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 Tom Hester Jr., Philadelphia Inquirer | 06.20.2007

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey awarded $10 million in stem cell research grants Tuesday that Gov. Jon S. Corzine hoped...

By Maggie Fox, Reuters | 06.18.2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Making human-animal embryos for scientific experiments should be allowed because of the benefits to science and medicine...

By Richard Hayes, The American Prospect | 06.18.2007

Melvin Konner's review of Michael Sandel's "The Case Against Perfection" [May 2007] reads like something written by Ayn Rand on...

By Ellen Goodman, Seattle Times | 06.16.2007

BOSTON - By now you may be forgiven for suspecting that science is tinted - if not entirely tainted -...

By Andreas Seibert, Time | 06.15.2007

Everything about Shinya Yamanaka's discovery was right-except for the timing. The 44-year-old Kyoto University stem-cell researcher had found a way...

By Editorial, The New Scientist | 06.15.2007

Expect to hear a familiar refrain over the coming days: "There's no need for embryonic stem cells." It is the...

By Kelly Patterson, Checkbiotech | 06.12.2007

Hailed as the biggest, most controversial genetics breakthrough since the cloning of Dolly the sheep, Dr. Craig Venter - the...

By Scientific American, Scientific American | 06.11.2007

South Korea's disgraced stem cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who is on trial for criminal fraud, is in Thailand to discuss...