Rick Weiss

A government laptop computer containing sensitive medical information on 2,500 patients enrolled in a National Institutes of Health study was stolen in February. The information was not encrypted, in violation...

An academic panel investigating embattled scientist Hwang Woo Suk concluded Tuesday that the claims he and his research team made in 2004 about creating the world's first stem cells from...

One year after President Bush told the nation he had resolved one of the toughest dilemmas facing his administration--whether the federal government should fund human embryo cell research--the research boom...

The anthrax spores that contaminated the air in Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's office had been treated with a chemical additive so sophisticated that only three nations are thought to...