Business groups support the purpose of the law but worry about the unintended consequences that may ensue from the restrictions on information about genetic information. The bill leaves open the possibility that employers can be sued for just receiving — not acting upon — a worker’s genetic information.
The bill President George W. Bush will sign [...]
For the first time, researchers showed that therapeutic cloning or SCNT has been successfully used to treat disease in the same subjects from whom the initial cells were derived. While this current work is in animals, it could have future implications as this method may be an effective way to reduce transplant rejection and enhance [...]
Deep ocean hydrothermal vents have long been suggested as possible sources of biological molecules such as RNA and DNA but it was unclear how they could survive the high temperatures and pressures that occur round these vents.
Professor Peter Coveney and colleagues at the UCL Centre for Computational Science have used computer simulation to provide insight [...]
About 80% of all land plants have a symbiotic relationship with fungi of the phylum Glomeromycota. The fungus penetrates cells in the plant’s roots, and provides the plant with phosphates and other nutrients from the soil. This kind of symbiosis is called an arbuscular mycorrhiza, and evolved more than 400 million years ago. Professor Martin [...]
