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The researchers studied the reported prevalence of homosexuality in a large number of identical and non-identical twin brothers of self-proclaimed gay men. They also looked at the sexual orientation of adopted brothers of gay men. Fifty-two per cent of the identical twins said they, like their brothers, were gay. Twenty-two per cent of the non-identical twins reported being gay, while only 11 per cent of adopted brothers of gay men said they were homosexuals

The writer is director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Minnesota and a columnist for the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Last month, 14 prisoners on death row at San Francisco's San Quentin prison filed suit in federal court, claiming their reproductive rights are being denied

If you read your newspaper very, very carefully last week, you might have seen a squib of a story buried on a back page about the Defense Department announcing plans to create a huge registry of genetic information

If someone should be killed in an airplane crash or on the battlefield where only a few incomplete bodily remains are found, DNA could be extracted from these remains and matched against the DNA extracted from the cells on the sample kept in the national registry. By using new techniques to match patterns between samples of DNA, precise identification would be possible

Couples who choose to use artificial insemination to overcome their infertility problems have every right not to know who the donor is. Many couples will only use artificial insemination with the assurance that the donor will never enter into their lives in any way. If [Cecil Jacobson] selected himself as the man best suited to procreate, he threw any chance for anonymity out the window. Not only would he have hurt his patients, but he also would have imposed his wacky presence into the lives of a bunch of innocent kids

Martina Greywind has become the latest pawn in America's abortion wars. Her story reveals just how pathetic the cacophony that passes for moral discourse about abortion has become

[Martina Greywind], 28, is an addict. She has been convicted 11 times of inhaling glue, paint and other chemicals to get high. Inhaling such substances can wreak havoc with fetal development. When Fargo police arrested her, they said they found her with a paper bag in her hand and gold spray paint on her face. This was the second time she had been arrested for inhaling paint during this pregnancy

Now, TB is back. The National Institutes of Health recently convened a meeting to discuss what to do about new strains of tuberculosis, which are immune to penicillin and other existing forms of antibiotics. Thirteen states, from New York to Hawaii, reported at least one case of drug-resistant TB in 1991. According to a recent article in the New York Times, New York City's Bellevue Hospital saw 62 patients with tuberculosis last month, and 16 of them have TB that is not responding to drugs. These patients must be kept in isolation

Now, TB is back. The National Institutes of Health recently convened a meeting to discuss what to do about new strains of tuberculosis, which are immune to penicillin and other existing forms of antibiotics. Thirteen states, from New York to Hawaii, reported at least one case of drug-resistant TB in 1991. According to a recent article in the New York Times, New York City's Bellevue Hospital saw 62 patients with tuberculosis last month, and 16 of them have TB that is not responding to drugs. These patients must be kept in isolation