Articles and Commentary

It's Nobel Prize season, and the Nobel scientists are very much in the news. James Watson, awarded the laureate in 1962 for helping to deduce the now-iconic double-helix structure of DNA, is currently embroiled in controversy after making a series...

Californians should be allowed to know what they're eating. That's the simple reason why Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should sign SB63, the nation's first law requiring food from cloned animals to be labeled. But there are other reasons to go slow...

In a recent review of 23 internet companies by a consumer watchdog group, Privacy International, Google was the only one to receive the lowest grade, reserved for those with "comprehensive consumer surveillance and entrenched hostility to privacy."

With that low...

300 is arguably the most racially charged movie since D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. In true post-9/11 form, Zack Snyder's film turns Brown into the new Black; Persians are depicted as bloodthirsty savages thwarted in the Battle...

The full story of 36-year-old Jolee Mohr's recent death in a gene therapy clinical trial for rheumatoid arthritis is still unfolding. The study, sponsored by Seattle-based Targeted Genetics, remains on hold. A team of 20 doctors and scientists at...

Later this month, a committee of the National Institutes of Health will discuss the recent death of 36-year-old Illinois resident Jolee Mohr in an experimental gene therapy study sponsored by Targeted Genetics Corporation. The NIH committee is an advisory body...

Any day now the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services may decide to turn back the clock to a time when doctors went unchallenged, medical investigators could do no wrong, and vulnerable people were grist for the research mill...

Peggy Orenstein's article (July 15) about the experiences of women who conceive and bear children using other women's eggs focuses on their frustrations about infertility, their desires for a pregnancy and a child and the difficulty of their decisions. I...