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Are Internet Genetic Testing Services Really Illegal?

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California Reveals All Its Targets in DNA Testing Probe

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A Human-Like Race Is Going Extinct

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Monkeys Practice World’s Oldest Profession

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The Wrong Way to Clone a Dog

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Should Fast Food Be Banned?

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Vatican Goes 21st Century With Biotech Advice

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Free-Range Research Could Save Chimps — and Our Conscience

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A Different Take on Great Ape Personhood

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Designer Babies: A Right to Choose?

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MRI Lie Detection to Get First Day in Court

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Return of The Doc Who Cried Clone

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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...

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How 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...

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3-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...

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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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