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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 Michelle Chen, The New Standard | 05.08.2006
A new controversy is gripping stem-cell science as California funds efforts with what critics consider little regard for ensuring the...
By Gallup, Gallup | 05.08.2006

Regardless of whether or not you think it should be legal, please tell me if you personally believe that in...

By Antony Barnett and Helena Smith, The Observer | 05.06.2006
Svetlana has a big family secret: she sold her eggs for US dollars. Svetlana did not tell her husband what...
By Reuters, Reuters | 05.04.2006


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Democrats sought on Thursday to jump-start a long-awaited debate on legislation to allow federal funding of...

By Richard Hayes, New York Times | 05.01.2006

To the Editor:

Re "Democrats Hope to Divide G.O.P. Over Stem Cells" (news article, April 24):

I'm a lifelong Democrat...

By Emily Galpern, The Women's Health Activist: Newsletter of the National Women's Health Network | 04.30.2006

May / June 2006

"Which comes first-the egg or the cure?" asks an advertisement enticing young women to provide their...

By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 04.28.2006
A year ago, it seemed so easy. In May 2005, Woo Suk Hwang and his colleagues told the world that...
By Gretchen Vogel, Science | 04.28.2006

A year ago, it seemed so easy. In May 2005, Woo Suk Hwang and his colleagues told the world that...