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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 Marisa Taylor, Red Herring | 03.13.2007

Small companies working to develop human embryonic stem cell therapies face innumerable challenges when looking for funding, according to several...

By Marie McCullough, Philadelphia Inquirer | 03.10.2007

PHILADELPHIA - When the subject is stem cell research, the term embryo is not only ethically charged, but increasingly hard...

By ABC News, ABC News | 03.09.2007

There's no doubt that blue-eyed Chloe Kingsbury is a special kid, but how she came into this world can only...

By Faye Flam, Seattle Times | 03.09.2007

Months before the FDA's December announcement that meat from cloned animals is safe to eat, employees at Cyagra were carving...

By Pallavi Gogoi, BusinessWeek | 03.08.2007

It's a cold February morning, and a thin layer of snow covers the ground at the Simplot ranch in Grand...

By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times | 03.06.2007

KEVIN MANNIX is a salesman and entrepreneur in the healthcare industry, a husband, father of two and the son of...

By Bonnie Miller Rubin, Chicago Tribune | 03.05.2007

With its row of nubile women, the eye-catching ad on CTA buses and trains could easily be mistaken for promoting...

By Rick Weiss, Washington Post | 03.03.2007

The Agriculture Department has given a preliminary green light for the first commercial production of a food crop engineered to...