The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has resisted researchers' overreaching in their patenting of genes, and researchers' work is seldom compromised by patents.

A recent court decision has been widely applauded as a pathway to abolishing human gene patents. But a closer look shows that getting rid of gene patents would probably be a big mistake.

It is said to be sports' doomsday scenario: a new generation of chemically enhanced or bioengineered athletes transformed from also-rans into world champions. We are entering an age often referred to as posthumanist, and sport is its leading edge. Elite athletes regularly remake their bodies in an effort to stretch...

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Join us for a discussion lead by former and current chiefs who will share firsthand knowledge of the limitations facing state education agencies and steps they have taken to overcome these challenges.

Conjuring fear of Nazism and anti-Semitism, Jews recoil from the thought that Judaism might be a race, but medical geneticist Harry Ostrer insists the 'biological basis of Jewishness' cannot be ignored.    In his new book, “Legacy: A Genetic History of the Jewish People,” Harry Ostrer, a medical geneticist...

Major cuts in drug- and alcohol-related harm depend not on genes but on choices by policy makers and individual citizens.