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Monkeys See Selves in Mirror, Open a Barrel of Questions
Monkeys may possess cognitive abilities once thought unique to humans, raising questions about the nature of animal awareness and our ability to measure it. In the lab of University of Wisconsin...
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Reproduction Hack Makes Mice From Two Dads
In a weird feat of biotechnological virtuosity, scientists have engineered mice with genes from two dads, and none from a mom. This was done by engineering females with eggs containing only chromosomes...
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To Measure Longevity, Common Sense Trumps Genetic Test
With several companies on the verge of mass-marketing genetic tests that claim to read aging’s cellular clock, some researchers say the science isn’t yet ready for prime-time use. The tests measure...
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Book Excerpt: Exposing India’s Blood Farmers
A few days before the Indian celebration of Holi, an emaciated man with graying skin, drooping eyes, and rows of purple needle marks on both arms stumbled up to a group of farmers in the sweltering...
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Poll: Should Sick People Be Paid to Risk Their Lives?
The ends aren’t supposed to justify the means, and people shouldn’t be unnecessarily risked for the sake of medical progress. But if paying patients to risk themselves would accelerate progress, is it...
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Research Committee May Be Stacked Against Chimps
An influential panel evaluating the scientific value of invasive medical research on chimpanzees may be stacked in favor of the controversial practice, say animal advocates. Although the Institutes of...
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Genome Revolution Is Skipping Nonwhites
The gold standard of modern genomics studies, the results of which guide thousands of investigations into the genetic roots of disease and development, are based almost exclusively on people of...
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Captive Chimps Could Be Declared Endangered Species
A regulatory oddity that gives different levels of protection to wild and captive chimpanzees is up for review, potentially changing how humanity's closest living relatives are used in research and...
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Hepatitis C: The Last Chimpanzee Research Battleground
Research on chimpanzees is no longer necessary to fight many diseases. In HIV, they simply didn't prove useful; for malaria, better alternatives existed. But the one remaining exception, the ground...
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A Second Life for Retired Lab Chimps
Many scientists have joined activists in calling for an end to medical experiments on chimpanzees. Should that happen, more than 1,000 chimpanzees now in U.S. laboratories will need new homes. Wired...
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Study Suggests Legal Assisted Suicide Doesn’t Increase Death Wish
A team of psychology and ethics researchers has published a study revealing that liberal legal attitudes to assisted suicide do not increase the desire for death in patients with incurable diseases.
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The Next 4 Years: Battlegrounds in Science, Medicine and Environment
The next four years will give America to a chance to shape, for better or worse, a host of vitally important scientific, medical and environmental issues. Here is some of what we'll be arguing over --...
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Top Scientific Discoveries of 2012
There were many really big moments in science this year. From finding a long, long sought subatomic particle to pushing the limits of extraterrestrial exploration to righting an ethical wrong, science...
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Ready or Not: Mutant H5N1 Research Set to Resume
One year after public uproar forced them to pause, researchers who study H5N1 avian influenza by designing new, extra-virulent strains are set to resume their work. Though the virologists might be...
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The Uncertain Fate of the Government’s Last 50 Medical-Research Chimps
The fate of 450 chimpanzees owned or supported by the United States government will soon be decided. Most will likely be sent to sanctuaries, but 50 may be kept in captivity, used for medical...
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Live Chat: Our Cyborg Future
What lies in store for the future at the interface of electronics and biology? Who will likely benefit early on? And where is this research heading? Consider these questions in a 3 p.m. ET live chat...
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End of a Dark Era? NIH to Retire Most Research Chimps
Some fine print remains to be translated, but the writing is on the wall for invasive, government-supported chimpanzee research in the United States: At long last, it's coming to an end.
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Medical Experimentation on Chimps Is Nearing an End. But What About Monkeys?
Monkeys share many of the traits that make experiments on chimps and other great apes so ethically troubling, yet their use in research elicits barely a whisper of public concern. That says less about...
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Personal Genomics Firm 23andMe Patents Designer Baby System, Denies Plans to...
Under a patent recently granted by the United States Patent Office, consumer genomics company 23andMe owns the rights to a system for helping prospective parents choose the traits of their offspring,...
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Cyborg Cockroach Company Sparks Ethics Debate
Starting in November, startup company Backyard Brains will begin shipping live cockroaches across the nation, accompanied by a microelectronic hardware and surgical kits geared toward students as young...
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