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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 Reuters, Reuters | 04.10.2007

SEOUL - South Korean scientists, disgraced for massive fraud in stem cell studies, are being investigated for possibly manipulating data...

By Ashling O’Connor, Times Online | 04.10.2007

Wendy Duncan and her husband Brian are white. Nineteen months ago, the Lincolnshire housewife gave birth to a beautiful, healthy...

By Michael Sandel, The Boston Globe | 04.09.2007

As the Senate prepares to take up stem cell legislation this week, Congress and the president are at odds over...

By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times | 04.04.2007

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has invalidated three broad patents for human embryonic stem cells that have been blamed...

By Amy Harmon, New York Times | 04.03.2007

They swab the cheeks of strangers and pluck hairs from corpses. They travel hundreds of miles to entice their suspects...

By Debora Spar, New England Journal of Medicine | 03.30.2007

Anna Behrens is 24 years old. Tall and slim, she is working toward her Ph.D. in art history at an...

By Bill Pennington, New York Times | 03.30.2007

The latest curative leap to heal professional athletes and weekend warriors alike may sound like science fiction, but it could...

By Mary Engel, Los Angeles Times | 03.27.2007

California's voter-created stem cell institute approved a $2.6-million grant earlier this month to a Los Angeles-based research center whose founding...