June 23, 2007
By pairing the veto with a new scientific initiative, the White House clearly hopes to blunt the inevitable criticism that President Bush will face for vetoing the embryonic stem cell measure.
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The move effectively pushed the debate surrounding the research into the 2008 presidential campaign....
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A Harris poll suggested that more than 40 percent of Americans would use genetic engineering to upgrade their children mentally and physically.
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Fissures in the autism community over the cause of the disorder have made their way into the Wright family, founders of the charity Autism Speaks....
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A new study suggests thousands of young women with breast cancer are not offered testing to identify faulty genes and clarify their medical decisions.
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The practice of collecting blood samples from Amazon Indians has aroused widespread suspicions in Brazil....
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A treatment that involves slipping billions of copies of a gene into the brain seemed to improve symptoms without causing side effects....
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Polynesian chickens whose bones were discovered at a Chilean archaeological site may have made it to the New World about a century before any European explorer.
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The Atlantic County prosecutor has been careful not to describe the Jeffrey S. Blitz, jailed on an unrelated charge, as a suspect.
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The time when anyone can contract to have his or her DNA sequenced can’t be far off. That brings into sudden focus a number of important questions.
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A prisoner serving 40 years for raping a 12-year-old girl in 1993 got his wish, but it was not what he intended. The prisoner, Culberson Henry, applied for a retesting of the evidence under a 2001 law allowing inmates claiming wrongful conviction to petition for DNA review. The request was granted last year and the results confirmed his guilt, reported Craig Watkins, district attorney of Dallas County, where 13 prisoners were recently exonerated after DNA testing. “Equally important,” Mr. Watkins said, it works the other way, too.
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Barry Commoner has for decades been agitating to restore ecological balance to the biosphere, whether by outlawing nuclear testing or spreading the practice of recycling....
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