Obama’s Stem Cell Guidelines Threaten Research
Under the Obama administration’s proposed rules for funding embryonic stem cell research, hundreds of existing cell lines could be ineligible, even those that qualified under President Bush. The...
View ArticleHow Your Biometrics Can Make Super Bowl Ads Better
Brian Levine is going to tell me what commercials I like without asking my opinion. He doesn’t have to ask. With the biometric toolkit developed by his company, he says that my own subconscious...
View Article3-Parent Embryos Could Prevent Disease, But Raise Ethical Issues
Researchers have produced human embryos containing DNA from three people, a biotechnological proof-of-principle with profound medical and ethical implications. To accomplish this, chromosomes were...
View ArticleMonkeys 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...
View ArticleReproduction 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...
View ArticleTo 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...
View ArticleBook 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...
View ArticlePoll: 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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