Law, Policy and Ethics in Global Technology

An outbreak of a virtual disease in the the popular online game World of Warcraft is providing an insight for scientists on how people beha...

Richie Trezise emigrated to New Zealand when he got a job there, so naturally he wanted his wife Rowan to come over. But the New Zealand imm...

Seven patients who needed new bladders received transplants of organs grown from their own cells. Dr. Anthony Atala, a pioneer in engineered...

Following up on research that identified the portions of the brain that are responsible for mystical, religious experiences, a researcher at...

Austin-based start-up BioEden has opened America’s first baby tooth bank, hoping to harvest and freeze stem cells from the tooth’s pulp. Sc...

Craig Venter , the controversial DNA researcher who once tried to map the human genome for commercial purpose, claims that he has created ar...

In times of stress, some single-celled organisms band together to create an entity that resembles a multicellular animal. And some of member...