Oh Huxley, what is your beloved country about to do?
In science fiction movies, it seems like it is easy to edit the genetics of a living organism. In reality, it is very, very difficult. A new
There maybe new hope for the millions of patients worldwide that suffer from multiple sclerosis, better known as MS. MS is a debilitating and
An excellent piece by Beth Daley from the New England Center for Investigative Reporting called "Overused and Misunderstood" is a must read.
The technique that the United States and, more seriously, the United Kingdom are considering bringing to the IVF clinic, which creates embryos
Paul Knoepfler, a vocal stem cell researcher, has penned an open letter to the UK Government asking for them to put the breaks on the three-parent
Paul Knoepfler is a stem cell researcher in California. His work focuses on the reasons pluripotent stem cells (both induced and embryonic) form
You have no doubt seen a video of a friend on Facebook being doused with buckets of ice water. What would possess a human being to do something
There are dozens of countries around the world that have banned sex selection. Unfortunately, the United States is not one of them. That makes
There is one argument against the Hobby Lobby decision that is driving me crazy maybe because it is going unchallenged on Facebook pages and
We often do not think about our eyes until we injure them. As a lab rat, I am particularly keen on eye safety as I have seen first hand what
This story is so heartbreaking and so indicative of the complicated ethical web the fertility industry has spun. Gracie Crane is a UK teenage
The World Cup is back. I was lucky enough to be standing near a TV (at a soccer center no less) when the U.S. scored its first goal against Ghana.
In today's modern society everything seems turned around. Black is white. White is black. You would think nothing would surprise me anymore,
On the heels of the announcement that researchers were able to clone two adult men and destroy those cloned embryos for stem cells, another group