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Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 5th, 2008
As a new Food Guide to replace the Food Pyramid is being considered, it appears our nutritional needs are being sold to the highest bidder … again! Nutritionist Luise Light, a former USDA insider and an architect of the original version of the Food Pyramid — that never saw the light of day — describes [...]
Posted in Bioinformatics, Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2008
It’s pretty common these days to pick up an issue of Science or Nature and see people ranting about GenBank (1). Many of the rants are triggered, at least in part, by a wide-spread misunderstanding of what GenBank is and how it works. Perhaps this can be solved through education, but I don’t think that’s [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 26th, 2008
If you’re fretting about drinking, you might be skipping red wine despite evidence that the grape squeezings may carry health benefits.Some day, if all goes well in the lab, you may be able to take a pill instead. And Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, a pioneer of the approach, just reported results from an early study in diabetic [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2008
Dr. Hsien-Hsien Lei, a prolific blogger who I adore for her articulation of science issues, has posted an article about a new book on how crop genetic engineering - combined with organic farming - can enhance global food sustainability. The book titled, Tomorrow’s Table: Organic Farming, Genetic, and the Future, is written by two [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 18th, 2008
Your Burger on Biotech Submitted by MichaelVail on Tue, 03/18/2008 - 5:42pm. 1984 Biotechnology Brave New World burger of the future cloned meat FDA genetically modified cheese hamburger lab-grown bacon one charbroiled cloned-beef patty protein-spiked bun. If the biotech industry has its way, ordering a hamburger might soon sound something like this: “one charbroiled cloned-beef [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 12th, 2008
I’m sorry, your genes are not suited for this job March 3rd, 2008 Robert Posted in Dreams, People, Technology | No Comments » Well, we knew that life was headed in this direction, but reading Michael Arrington’s description of his test results from 23andMe gives me cause to shudder. The outcomes [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 9th, 2008
Designer Babies? the controversy is just starting http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ejtr36ddoQ&feature=user
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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 28th, 2008
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Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2008
Lack of Trained Workers Threatens Massachusetts Biotechnology Industry A report on the state of the Massachusetts biotechnology industry suggests that global competition and shortages of trained workers might cause the state to loss its reputation as one of the world’s top life sciences cluster. The report points out that there simply [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 25th, 2008
A panel of eighteen apparently maverick thinkers was charged with coming up with a to-do list for the twenty-first century by the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE). The maverick panel includes such notables as former director of the National Institutes of Health Bernadine Healy, Google co-founder Larry Page, geneticist and businessman Craig Venter, Nobel [...]