Aldous Huxley's Brave New World paints a dark picture of a future society that deifies scientific progress. In Huxley's "Utopia," science controls individual opportunity and, hence, destiny. Heredity shapes the individual's place in society, so that from the moment of conception, a person's...

Imagine if Europe decided to fling open its doors to genetically modified organisms. Could it guarantee that consumers could still choose between products with and without GMOs? How? A panel of more than 200 researchers worked for four years on these questions. According to their conclusions,...