Chimp research: Unethical and futile, or necessary evil? - The U.S. biomedical industry conducts more experiments on chimpanzees than anyone else in the world, and that has caused a heated debate in the scientific community about the research’s morality and utility....

A shining star in cancer research - ELLENSBURG -- When Susan George was first diagnosed with breast cancer, friends advised her to go to Seattle for the latest and best treatment. "They said I had to go to the west side, to Fred Hutch or UW or one of...

On a mission to educate about adult stem cells - Rachel Wright gave her mother nearly an extra three years of life and together they played a pioneering role in the battle against a rare form of cancer called mantle-cell lymphoma. In the fall of 2005, Rachel, an...