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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 Polly Curtis, The Guardian (UK) | 12.30.2006

Scientists have unveiled a new form of IVF which they claim is "better than nature" at getting some women pregnant...

By Kit Wagar, Kansas City Star | 12.20.2006

Surrounded by boisterous supporters, state Sen. Matt Bartle and Rep. Jim Lembke unveiled their proposal Tuesday to reverse last month’s...

By Sonya Geis, Washington Post | 12.19.2006

LOS ANGELES -- Two years after California voters passed a landmark $3 billion bond measure for stem cell research, not...

By Mark Henderson, Times Online | 12.18.2006

The medical promise of therapeutic cloning has been oversold and its unreasonably high profile risks turning the public against more...

By A.J. Hostetler, Richmond Times-Dispatch | 12.14.2006

A new national poll conducted in the aftermath of actor Michael J. Fox’s televised appeals for stem-cell research shows that...

By Rebecca Vesel, Oakland Tribune | 12.08.2006

The president of California's landmark stem cell agency resigned Thursday, citing personal reasons, in a move observers described as a...

By Darshak M. Sanghavi, M.D., New York Times | 12.05.2006

Wanting to have children who follow in one’s footsteps is an understandable desire. But a coming article in the journal...

By Mary Engel, Los Angeles Times | 12.03.2006

The meeting was almost over when Roman Reed steered his wheelchair to the microphone.

On the table before him sat...