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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 Carl Hall, San Francisco Chronicle | 03.01.2007

State auditors have criticized California's Proposition 71 stem cell agency for loose contracting procedures and generous travel and meal allowances...

By NICHOLAS WADE, New York Times | 02.28.2007

An inquiry panel has found what it called "significantly flawed" data in a major stem cell paper published in Nature...

By Terri Somers, San Diego Union Tribune | 02.28.2007

A performance review of California's stem cell institute says the fledgling agency needs to improve several policies, better document how...

By Kara Platoni, East Bay Express | 02.28.2007

In 1999, French investigators undertook a daring experiment. Their patients were eleven children with a devastating immune system disorder called...

By Marcy Darnovsky, Genetic Crossroads | 02.28.2007

The UK-based Human Genetics Alert (HGA) has launched a campaign to prevent Britain from becoming the first country in the...

By Nicholas Bakalar , New York Times | 02.27.2007

Black women have significantly higher rates of premature birth than white women, and a new study suggests there may be...

By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News | 02.25.2007

New scientific evidence, including DNA analysis conducted at one of the world's foremost molecular genetics laboratories, as well as studies...

By This is London, thisislondon.co.uk | 02.24.2007

Scientists will be able to carry out genetic experiments on human embryos for the first time under controversial Government plans...