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Francis Collins: A view from the press room
By Ricki Lewis Francis Collins, the soon-to-be former director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), boldly ventured where not too many scientists dare – the press room. At the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics, Dr. Collins is as much a fixture of the reporters’... (read the rest)
Neural Buddhism?
David Brooks has been reading up on neuroscience: The atheism debate is a textbook example of how a scientific revolution can change public culture. Just as “The Origin of Species reshaped social thinking, just as Einstein’s theory of relativity affected art, so the revolution in neuroscience is having an effect... (read the rest)
The noise gets louder
Writing in the Washington Post this week, David Shaywitz highlights some of the unintended consequences of the newer mass-scale approaches to studying genes: A pioneer of this era, MIT geneticist Eric Lander, speaks eloquently of the "global view of biology," meaning that scientists now have extraordinary tools to study not... (read the rest)
Art Caplan on Ben Stein's "Expelled"
Over at MSNBC, Art writes that Ben Stein's intelligent design documentary is not just bad -- it's immoral: Rarely has a movie subtitle so capably assessed a movie’s content as does "Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed." There is not a shred of intelligence on display in this just released "documentary"... (read the rest)
The gap is widening on genetic testing, too
By Ricki Lewis Yesterday, Ricki examined the growing gap between science and the public on stem cells. Today, she turns her attention to genetic testing. Marketing tests based on whole genome association (WGA) studies were perhaps inevitable, for the approach makes theoretical sense. Scan genomes of people who share a... (read the rest)
The gap between science and society widens on stem cells
By Ricki Lewis This is the first of a two-part post. Tomorrow, Ricki will examine how this gap is widening on genetic testing. The disconnect between what biomedical scientists know and what health care consumers believe is growing, particularly for stem cell treatments. The ability to send a skin cell... (read the rest)
Cribsheets from Seed
Seed Magazine has been posting a collection of one page info sheets for a bunch of different scientific subjects. The first topic in the series: stem cells (that's a thumbnail to the right). Even though the crib sheets skim the surface of the topics (that is the point, after all)... (read the rest)
Check out my brain!
The new blog io9 pointed out something recently that was a bit surprising to us -- and maybe it will be to you, too: people seem to be really into posting images of their brains on the photo sharing site Flickr. A lot of the images seem to be... (read the rest)
Time's top 10 scientific discoveries of 2007
We're not so sure about the criteria used to make the selections (see #10: real-life kryptonite), but the list includes three topics that come up here all the time: #1 - Stem cell breakthroughs #2 - The publishing of Venter's entire genome #5 - Heart valve tissue grown from stem... (read the rest)
A cheek swab! Oh, you shouldn't have!
We were so relieved to find out there's still time to order a "DNA Portrait" holiday gift kit. For $390 (and up) a company called DNA11 will turn a DNA sample taken from a cheek swab into art (example above). The Information Aesthetics blog runs through the gift considerations:... (read the rest)
the fog of academic war
In academic feuds, as in war, there is no telling how far people will go once the shooting starts. - Benedict Carey, NYTimes What constitutes research? It's a question that's been idly lurking in the back of my mind since I first picked up and read Malcolm Gladwell's book The... (read the rest)
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