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  • Why the Biotech Industry Is Rejoicing Over the End of Gene Patents

    Last week’s Supreme Court ruling that human genes can't be patented looked like a huge blow to the biotech industry, which collectively holds thousands of patents on isolated DNA sequences and has a vested commercial interest in protecting these...

  • My Month Without Sex

    Eventually, some women are going to hear these three little life-changing words: “You have HPV.” I first found out I had the human papilloma virus just over two and a half years ago, and aside from it giving me the ability to make hilarious jokes about...

  • India's Street Doctors Will Bleed the Sickness Right Out of You

    Veteran bloodletter Mohammad Gyas watches as his son slices open the hands and feet of the sick with single-use razor blades in the gardens of a mosque in Old Delhi. A few feet away, a middle-aged arthritis sufferer leaps energetically onto a brick...