Arthur Kaplan, PhD, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, has authored an opinion piece on MSNBC pooh-poohing personalized genomic testing …
Tag: Applied Biotechnology
First batch of "pharmed" blood courses out of the lab
Back in 2008, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched a "Blood Pharming" program to develop "an automated, fieldable cell culture and packaging system …
More concern over synthetic biology patents
I'm a few days late to this, but Duke Law School Professor James Boyle has written an insightful opinion piece outlining his concerns about the …
Venter's "synthetic life" is a different disc in an old player (but it's still music)
Human-genome-sequencing pioneer Craig Venter, PhD, and his group have announced the achievement of a significant milestone: They've reconstructed the known genome of a bacterial organism, …
Crossing the valley of death: bridging the drug-development divide
Newsweek science columnists Sharon Begley and Mary Carmichael have written a cogent and provocative article about the impediments to moving promising early drug research out …
Old 8th grade algebra sucks new medical information from blood
0.24a + 0.41b + 0.35c + 0.12d + . . . = 1.00 0.21a + 0.29b + 0.20c + 0.08d + . . . = …
Study suggests new strategy for spinal muscular atrophy
Some little souls are here with us for just a few months, but leave lasting impressions. A Nature Biotechnology article this week gives yet another …
The blind can see
Via the New York Times, here's a story that gadget-lovers and medical professionals alike can appreciate: With the help of a tiny camera and an …
Gene therapy may cure color blindness
A gene therapy technique developed by researchers at the University of Washington has just been used to cure color blindness in adult monkeys. In the …