Dr. Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, discusses the ethical issues raised by commercial genetic testing. Listen to the interview…
George Church of Harvard Medical School hopes to recruit 100,000 people and sequence the DNA of each and every one. With that many genomes, combined with personal information, Church believes we’ll have a chance of getting at the root causes of common diseases and figuring out how to prevent them. Watch the video…
Legislation currently making its way through the British parliament aims to dramatically widen the acceptable scope of assisted reproduction and embryo research in the UK. One of the bill’s provisions permits the creation of in vitro siblings with matching tissues that can be harvested in case the original child needs an organ or bone marrow transplant later in life.
Researchers at the New York Botanical Garden are coordinating an ambitious new project that will create a database of DNA information from the world’s tree species, according to an …
Back in October, the NEWSHOUR reported on the rise of drug-resistant staph infections. The report cited a study by the CDC that revealed a dangerous bacterial infection that’s resistant …
