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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 Paul Elias, Associated Press | 12.03.2006

SAN FRANCISCO -- California voters, wooed by an aggressive, multimillion dollar campaign that promised cures to myriad diseases, overwhelmingly approved...

By Parita Shah, San Jose Mercury News | 12.01.2006

Actor Michael J. Fox and conservative radio talk-show host Rush Limbaugh pushed stem-cell research into the forefront of political dialogue...

By Mike Stobbe, Associated Press | 11.29.2006

A survey of hospital review boards that watchdog experiments on patients shows that one in three members takes money from...

By Anita L. Allen, Philadelphia Inquirer | 11.26.2006

The Annotated Mother Goose includes this nursery rhyme:

First a daughter, then a son,

And the world is well begun...

By Richard Hayes, San Francisco Examiner | 11.24.2006

The contentious midterm elections clearly left a mark on the politics of stem cell research, but it’s not clear what...

By Richard Hayes, Biopolitical Times | 11.24.2006
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins suggests that we entertain the possibility of breeding human beings as we do cows, horses and...
By Reuters, Reuters | 11.19.2006

ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, Nov. 18 (Reuters) — Secretary General Kofi Annan of the United Nations warned Saturday that the potential...

By Roy MacGregor, Globe and Mail | 11.15.2006

On one of those November days that seem to cling to you like a cold, wet leaf, I have just...