In the News this Week
Posted by Jesse Reynolds April 3, 2009
Biopolitical Times
Gautam Naik of the Wall Street Journal looked at the possibility of DNA forensic phenotyping, which would use genetic material at a crime scene to try to create an image of the suspect.
A study suggests that implanting a single embryo at a time during IVF is just as effective at establishing a pregnancy as implanting two.
Some data point to egg donation leading to a decline in fertility, although the evidence is not conclusive.
Nature retracted a 2000 paper which claimed a major advance in the use of medical gene transfer to treat diabetes.
Michael Hiltzik, a columnist at the Los Angeles Times, sharply criticized California's stem cell research program.