regulation, culture

Joey Ramp went back to college to study post-traumatic stress disorder. But the dogs that help her manage her own PTSD complicate her research career.

Did 20th-century pharmaceutical and technological advances shape modern sexual behaviors?

Tracks and Shadows, The Gap, The Cure in the Code, and An Appetite for Wonder

While biotechnology has met with mixed public reactions, to date nanotechnology seems to invoke much less public concern.

Celebrity spokespeople for pharma companies can manipulate the public’s understanding of disease.

More than one quarter of US researchers studying human embryonic stem cells say they’ve had trouble acquiring cell lines of interest.

A powerful consortium of research organizations in Europe speaks out against a recent ruling to ban patenting of research on human embryonic stem cells.

A German ethics council weighs in on the discussion about the use of human-animal chimeras in research.

Ten years after an investigative report found that 10 papers on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) were “flawed,” only one has been pulled from the literature.

The United Kingdom is revamping its intellectual property laws for published research.