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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 Osagie K. Obasogie, Boston Globe | 02.01.2007

JENALEE RYAN has just opened the Abraham Center of Life in San Antonio, Texas, billing it as "the world's first...

By David King, Genetic Crossroads | 01.26.2007
Editor's note:

Many consider the UK approach to human biotechnologies to be a model of comprehensive and responsible policy. Since...

By Chris Thompson, East Bay Express | 01.24.2007

The more details emerge about Proposition 71, California's $3 billion stem-cell research project, the more it all looks like a...

By Malcolm Maclachlan, Capitol Weekly | 01.23.2007

A University of California Berkeley economics professor has done an analysis of the financial returns likely to come to California...

By Malcolm Ritter, The Washington Post | 01.20.2007

Say you're a woman who wants to have fertility treatment but can't afford the $5,000 to $6,000 cost.

What if...

By Amanda Paulson, Christian Science Monitor | 01.18.2007
In an era when infertile couples often look to test tubes or surrogate mothers to create children, the notion of...
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times | 01.17.2007

WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 - President Bush on Wednesday urged Congress to pass long-stalled legislation to safeguard genetic privacy, a measure...

By Lonny Shavelson, Voice of America News | 01.17.2007

The quest to identify fetuses carrying potentially fatal genetic diseases got a powerful tool in the early 1990s, with the...