Technology
He'll Pay for That
The modern world exists because of science, so Kavli hopes his funding of astrophysics, brain research and nanoscience will pave the way to the future
Stories by Sally Lehrman
Biology
New Genetic Insights Show How Tuberculosis May Be Evolving to Become More Dangerous
Tuberculosis seems to be evolving in unexpected ways that outsmart humans
Health
Undifferentiated Ethics: Why Stem Cells from Adult Skin Are as Morally Fraught as Embryonic Stem Cells
Hailed as a potential alternative to embryonic stem cells, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) raise their own ethical dilemmas
The Sciences
The Christian Man's Evolution: How Darwinism and Faith Can Coexist
A geneticist ordained as a Dominican priest, Francisco J. Ayala sees no conflict between Darwinism and faith. Convincing most of the American public of that remains the challenge
Technology
Dolly's Creator Moves Away from Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cells
Like many stem cell pioneers, Ian Wilmut, the creator of Dolly the sheep, has jumped to an alternative approach. Is this the beginning of the end for embryonic cloning?
The Sciences
Is It Time to Give Up on Therapeutic Cloning? A Q&A with Ian Wilmut
The creator of Dolly the sheep has ended his focus on somatic cell nuclear transfer, or cloning, in favor of another approach to create stem cells
The Sciences
Are Personal Genome Scans Medically Useless?
Doubts about whether commercial DNA scans improve health
Health
From Race to DNA
Thinking about patients as ongoing products of evolution
The Sciences
When a Person Is Neither XX nor XY: A Q&A with Geneticist Eric Vilain
Eric Vilain discusses the biology and politics of mixed-sex individuals, arguing that terms such as "hermaphrodite" and "intersex" are vague and hurtful.
Health
Going beyond X and Y
Babies born with mixed sex organs often get immediate surgery. New genetic studies, Eric Vilain says, should force a rethinking about sex assignment and gender identity.
Technology
Dialing In
Mobile phones target the world's nonreading poor
The Sciences
Partial to Crime
Families become suspects as rules on dna matches relax
The Sciences
Missing No Longer
International commission forges ahead to identify genocide victims
Mind & Brain
The Implicit Prejudice
Mahzarin Banaji can show how we connect "good" and "bad" with biased attitudes we hold, even if we say we don't. Especially when we say we don't
The Sciences
Trace Elements
Reconnecting African-Americans to an ancestral past
The Sciences
A Proposition for Stem Cells
Last fall Robert Klein got Californians to vote for embryonic stem cell work. That was a piece of cake compared with getting the resulting research agency off the ground
Mind & Brain
Performance without Anxiety
Fear of reinforcing negative stereotypes, Claude Steele finds, hampers the ability to succeed. The idea is now central in affirmative action and job discrimination fights
The Sciences
Sobering Shift
Gene searches move from alcoholism to intoxication
The Sciences
Return of the Fleece
Science feels the heat from the politics of morality
The Sciences
Terms of Engagement
Irving Weissman directs a new institute dedicated to the cloning of human embryonic stem cells. Just don't call it cloning
