Court ruling put to test

Put to the test

Personalized heart muscle cells made from stem cells in the laboratory could be used to check an individual's response to potential new drugs before clinical trials.

Supreme Court ruling broadens BRCA testing options.

T he day after Mother's Day, actress Angelina Jolie wrote an op-ed in the New York Times revealing her decision to undergo a double mastectomy after learning that she carries a deleterious mutation in the BRCA1 gene. Jolie and women like her who have certain germ-line BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations are at higher risk for breast and ovarian cancers. Jolie, whose mother died from ovarian cancer, said s...

BHF 'upset but undeterred' by Appeal Court ruling.

Genes: philosophical analyses put to the test.

This paper describes one complete and one ongoing empirical study in which philosophical analyses of the concept of the gene were operationalized and tested against questionnaire data obtained from working biologists to determine whether and when biologists conceive genes in the ways suggested. These studies throw light on how different gene concepts contribute to biological research. Their aim...

New Controversy for 340B: OPA Rebuffs Ruling by Court.

In a new 340B controversy, OPA rebuffs a court ruling.