This Week in the News
Here are a few stories that we've not covered here at Biopolitical Times. You can stay up-to-date on the news with CGS's news compilation, available as a web page, RSS feed, or weekly email.
The New York Times examined parents' use of a genetic test on their children. It looks for the presence of genes related to atheticism.
In the European Union, an appeals panel of the Patent Office upheld an earlier ruling that rejected an application for a wide-ranging patent on the derivation of embryonic stem cells. Opposition to the patent came from both the right and left.
The potential economic impacts of the imminent in California of the lifting of the restrictions on the federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research were explored by Bernadette Tansey in the San Francisco Chronicle.