The debate: Do genetic risks raise Jewish IQs?
The question had been gnawing at Gregory Cochran for years: Why are European Jews prone to so many deadly genetic diseases? Natural selection, the self-taught genetics buff knew, should flush...
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Obama to lift stem-cell ban
Fulfilling a campaign pledge, President Barack Obama will sign an executive order Monday rescinding restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem-cell research, administration officials said Friday, making hundreds of...
Meat–from lab to plate?
The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday opened the way for genetically engineered salmon, cows and other animals to move from the laboratory to the marketplace, unveiling an approval process...
Brain drugs boost try for memory pill
Forget sports doping. The next frontier is brain doping. As Major League Baseball struggles to rid itself of performance enhancing drugs, people in a range of other fields are reaching...
Diabetes drug risk spurs alert
A widely prescribed drug to treat Type 2 diabetes substantially increases the risk of heart attacks and death from cardiovascular disease, according to a study released Monday that critics say...
Cloned beef–the other red meat
The cloned steak was served medium rare. Inside the unusually hushed atrium of Campanile restaurant in Los Angeles, the guests lifted slices of beef onto their plates. Executive chef Mark...
Stem cell coup falls in scandal
Hwang Woo Suk, the renowned South Korean scientist who has unveiled a series of breakthroughs on cloning and stem cells, was accused by collaborators Thursday of fabricating results in a...
More firms on brink?
WorldCom Inc.'s mammoth bankruptcy filing Sunday could prolong the telecommunications industry's long and painful implosion by dragging teetering companies over the brink with it. More than three dozen telecom firms...
Unlikely pair at center of tempest
Bernard J. Ebbers was an unlikely pioneer in the cutting-edge world of telecommunications. Though he transformed WorldCom Inc. from an idea on a coffee-shop napkin into the second-largest long-distance company...
WorldCom says it inflated books by $3.9 billion
WorldCom Inc., the long-distance giant already embroiled in scandal, disclosed Tuesday that it substantially inflated profit for more than a year by improperly accounting for more than $3.9 billion in...