CHATOM, Ala. — When Timothy J. Atchison regained consciousness, he was drenched in blood and pinned in his car on the side of a dark rural road.

Kitchen Sink Drama is the debut EP to be released in April by the critically acclaimed electro pop artist Alexander Price and includes the cover of the PSB hit Rent.

New Delhi, Feb 26 (IANS) Best-selling British author and movie producer Peter James has made it his mission to eliminate the stigma of trash associated with crime fiction in his capacity as chairperson of the prestigious Crime Writers’ Association of the UK. And if that means taking on the Booker Prize, so be it.

Scientists in Syracuse University’s Chemistry Department have created a new drug delivery system expected to advance the effectiveness of cancer-killing drugs. It uses gold nanoparticles with attached DNA that binds to a proven anti-cancer drug, Doxorubicin or DOX.

Are we still evolving? is not really a yes-or-no question. How irritating I had a strong urge to skip to the end of Horizon: Are We Still Evolving? (BBC2) to find out the answer. In fact, for me the ideal programme on the subject would be 30 seconds long and called Are We Still Evolving – Yes Or No? I might even let them string it out to a minute, just in case the explanation is a bit …

‘Family Balancing’ enables would-be parents to select the sex of a child with almost 100 per cent certainty through a technique called Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis.

There are some things that money cannot or should not buy, such as integrity, love, human organs and babies [“Bill would legalize payment of surrogates to bear children,” page one, March 15]. However, if House Bill 1267 passes in Washington, sale of babies and womb rental will become legitimate business.

People battling infertility now have a resource that allows them to read about the donor and then make a selection based on their preferences.  

A LEADING Australian ethicist has advocated genetically screening embryos to create a smarter society of superior “designer babies” with higher IQs.

Doctors in France on Monday announced the country’s first birth of a “saviour sibling,” selected at the embryonic stage to be a close genetic match to save a brother or sister suffering from a fatal inherited disorder.

A leading NHS fertility doctor is making money by sending couples abroad to choose the sex of their unborn baby – a procedure that is illegal in Britain.

By Alison Abbott The Leopoldina, Germany’s national academy of sciences, has published a report strongly recommending that preimplantation genetic diagnosis of early embryos be allowed by law when couples know they carry genes that could cause a serious incurable disease if passed on to their children. [More]

Don’t you think the new science of biotechnology will be the key to finding the cure or treatment for most of our health problems? –Felix Antonio, Manila

Abortion on demand has produced two classes of abortion survivors — those who survived the actual abortion and those with siblings who were aborted. How have they been impacted by their mother’s “right to choose?”

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (BP)—In his new book, former President George W. Bush provides a behind-the-scenes look at his landmark 2001 decision that prohibited most forms of embryonic stem cell research, acknowledging that he knew very little about the issue when he first arrived in office but explaining how six months of research led him to a conclusion he believes will be vindicated by science and …

Robot warriors and computers in our brains… Controversial historian Ian Morris says life in 2100 will be unrecognisable from today – if it survives.

Homosexuality is a lifestyle choice. Or so religious conservatives would have us believe. But liberalism is in our genes. Or so researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University would have us believe. Yes, the inevitable has happened. Just before Election Day–surely not a coincidence–scientists report an association between liberal political views and DRD4, a gene …

NEWTOWN has some top graffiti. One of my favourite bits can be found on a brick wall just off Australia Street. NEWTOWN HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT YUPPIE LIFE!!! RESPECT THE LOCALS! And in smaller writing nearby DOWN WITH PRAMS AND DESIGNER BABIES.

This week the scientific father of the test tube baby won the Nobel Prize. A look back at how in vitro fertilization has affected parenthood.

The plan to introduce GM mosquitoes in Malaysia will not be implemented “at the moment”. “Seemingly it is quite an interesting (solution) to deal with such a problem but I think… not until and unless every aspect of research being carried out is clinically tested and… environmental issues have been addressed,” AFP reported Muhyiddin [...]