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The J. Craig Venter Institute announces that researchers there have succeeded in synthetically recreating the genome of the bacterium Mycoplasma genitalium.

William B. Hurlbut, a member of the President’s Council on Bioethics, discusses his proposed alternative to using embryonic stem cells in stem cell research.

Last week the U.S. observed the 20^th anniversary of the tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger. What can we learn on a personal level?

How can we minimize our risk of getting an infectious disease? Most people ignore the age-old wisdom revealed in the pages of the Bible.

With the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster still haunting Southeast Asia, Vision looks at other potential trouble spots on the earth's fragile surface.

Increasing numbers of DNA-based patents are being applied for on a daily basis. Vision examines some of the implications of the battle over who owns life.

How can life in all its varied forms be defined as a human creation for the purpose of granting patents when it is freely given as a gift from God?

Many in the biotech industry say that patenting will boost research, while probably just as many think it will have an adverse effect.

Many believe that if living things can be patented, life is reduced to a mere commodity.

When a company gets a patent on a biological product, it has monopoly rights and can charge any price it wants for that product.

Arguments in favor of life patenting.

Vision publisher David Hulme interviews Charles A. Pasternak, a noted British biochemist and the founding director of the Oxford International Biomedical Centre.

Vision speaks with cosmologist Sir Martin Rees, Britain’s Astronomer Royal, about the main threats facing humanity.

A fisherman observes some of the intricacies of life as he matches wits with finicky fish. Can fly fishermen teach us a lesson on life?

Uncovering the synaptic processes that gather, store and retrieve information throughout the brain is the cutting edge of modern neuroscience.

Recent discoveries in neuroscience are providing exciting insights into the nature of being human.

Vision interviews brain researcher Jeffrey M. Schwartz.

Variations of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, referred to by Jeffrey Schwartz as the Four Steps program, have successfully treated a wide range of conditions.

Sallie Baliunas says science doesn’t support the popular view on the subject of climate change and its causes.

How much have humans contributed to the problem, and what should we do about it? Crispin Tickell says we need to act now to undo the damage.