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Salon.com
May 21, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Clone free Francis Fukuyama warns that the combination of runaway biotechnology and individual freedom could lead to a social nightmare...   |
Wired
May 2002
Brian Alexander |
The Remastered Race Artificial chromosomes and in vitro screening are giving new life to the eugenics debate. The question is not whether we want to engineer embryos but how far it should go... |
Reason
August 2002
Ronald Bailey |
Forever Young The new scientific search for immortality |
Reason
April 2001
Cathy Young |
Monkeying Around with the Self Why support for biotech shouldn't foreclose the debate over its moral issues... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Bettering Ourselves Through Biotech: Greater Productivity, Sharper Memories, Hair Feathers Beefing up muscle without steroids or hormones; rejuvenating damaged skin and heart tissue; ratcheting up memory function. Therapies that promise to enhance human abilities are nearing the marketplace. Funding, however, is hard to come by these days. |
BusinessWeek
April 4, 2005
Arlene Weintraub |
Biotech's Fountain Of Youth A review of the book "More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement." The book by Ramez Naam provides a look at biotech's role in the future of medicine. |
Salon.com
August 21, 2000
Lori B. Andrews |
Embryos under the knife The latest reproductive technology is just the next step on our sprint toward human cloning. |
Bio-IT World
July 11, 2002
Mark D. Uehling |
Flirting with Genomic Disaster A conversation with political scientist Francis Fukuyama about the prospect of ethics regulation in biotechnology. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
Biotech, Finally The past 30 years of biological discoveries, insights into the human genome, and exotic chemical manipulation have unleashed a wave of biological drugs, many of them reengineered human proteins. |
Reason
December 2008
Ronald Bailey |
Speculation, Innovation, Regulation In 1968 reason magazine predicted, technologically speaking, what life would be like today. How accurate were they? |
Wired
June 2005
Clive Thompson |
How to Farm Stem Cells Without Losing Your Soul A solution to the stem cell dilemma that even the Vatican can love. |
BusinessWeek
April 12, 2004
John Carey |
Gene-Based Therapy: Back To The Couch Recent setbacks show (again) that biotech needs more patience and less ballyhoo |
Salon.com
May 25, 2002
Katharine Mieszkowski |
Our shiny happy clone future Procreation without sex, smarter babies and the right to choose the sexual orientation of your kids -- it's all good, says scientist Gregory Stock... |
Wired
January 2003
Charles C. Mann |
The First Cloning Superpower Inside China's race to become the clone capital of the world. |
Reason
January 2001
Ronald Bailey |
Dr. Strangelunch Or: Why we should learn to stop worrying and love genetically modified food... |
Fast Company
March 2006
Ramez Naam |
The Body: Bulletproof Gene therapy is on its way - and it's coming fast. |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
Repairing The Engines Of Life Can research into stem cells and other advanced techniques heal ailing hearts and brains? U.S. labs are hamstrung by the federal government. |
Wired
April 2003
Charles C. Mann |
New and Improved! A user's guide to your genetically modified future. |
Wired
January 2004
Wendy Goldman Rohm |
Seven Days of Creation The inside story of a human cloning experiment |
Pharmaceutical Executive
October 1, 2012
Ben Comer |
Stem Cells: A Promise Deferred? Ideology, politics, and a stilted political debate may be causing pharma to overlook the potential of emerging stem cell therapies in fostering a new generation of cures. |
Smithsonian
June 2006
Amy Crawford |
Interview: Christiane Nusslein-Volhard A Nobel laureate holds forth on flies, genes and women in science. Her first book, Coming to Life, explains the genetic and cellular basis of animal development and explores the ethical implications of recent progress in genomics and biotechnology. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
March 1, 2007
Sarah Houlton |
Global Report: Ready ... Set ... The European Parliament has launched a formal process for assessing therapies developed through stem-cell research. Ethical issues that have wrangled US regulators, though, still need attention. |
BusinessWeek
January 10, 2005
Bruce Einhorn |
Asia Is Stem Cell Central Singapore isn't the only country in the region trying to profit from the U.S. restrictions. Australia, China, India, Japan, and South Korea all see stem cell research as a way to get ahead in biotech. |
Salon.com
December 29, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Will Thompson, Bush clash over human embryo research? The HHS nominee supports it, but right-to-lifers want it stopped.... |
Popular Mechanics
January 2010
Amber Angelle |
How to Create a Designer Baby Women undergoing in vitro fertilization could one day choose to have a baby boy with perfect vision, an aptitude for sports and a virtual lock on avoiding colon cancer. |
Salon.com
October 5, 2000
Leah Kohlenberg |
Designer babies? Pediatrician and ethicist Joel Frader says that just because a family has had a child to provide a bone-marrow transplant for an ailing daughter, it doesn't mean custom-ordered kids are right around the corner... |
Bio-IT World
April 16, 2004
Kevin Davies |
A Black Eye for Bioethics Elizabeth Blackburn, an internationally renowned cell biologist, received a surprise phone call from the White House, informing her that her services on the President's Council on Bioethics would no longer be required. |
Reason
April 2001
Ronald Bailey |
Goddamn the Pusher Man Why does everybody seem to hate the pharmaceutical industry? |
Reason
November 2001 |
Letters Global Village or Pillage?... All the Rage... Enemies of Trade... Campaign Finance... Sentenced to Death... etc. |
Fast Company
March 2008
Elizabeth Svoboda |
Eureka? Alan Trounson, the new president of California's stem-cell agency, talks about the science, the opposition, and his qualms about working with embryos. |
Scientific American
November 2007 |
Reviews Few books could present more implacably opposed views, and few could raise more provocative questions: The Case Against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering by Michael J. Sandel... Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People by John Harris... |
Salon.com
May 3, 1999
Dawn MacKeen |
The Clone Age Adventures in the new world of reproductive technology... |
The Motley Fool
November 9, 2004
Charly Travers |
Are Stem Cells a Rule Breaker? Does the science offer real hope or just hype? Biotech investors take on enough risk in the normal course of drug development that they do not need to worry about whether or not the underlying technology even works. |
BusinessWeek
August 1, 2005 |
The Side Effects of Drugged Crops The Union of Concerned Scientists' Margaret Mellon explains the group's concerns about the dangers genetically altered food poses. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2000 |
Letters: Earth Day in the Balance I was delighted to read Ronald Bailey's "Earth Day: Then and Now"... I was puzzled by Ronald Bailey's "Earth Day: Then and Now"... |
Reason
October 2001
Ronald Bailey |
Blastocyst Brouhaha Which human cells count as people? |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
A New Approach to Valuing Biotech Stocks Enormous swings in biotechnology stock prices during the last few weeks show how difficult it is for investors to value biotech companies. It's important to understand the invisible potential locked up in the organizational structure of biotechnology companies... |
Reason
December 2000
Ronald Bailey |
Pink Mice and Petri Dishes Artists contemplate biotechnology. On the evidence of Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution, a recent exhibition of 39 artists at the downtown Manhattan gallery Exit Art, the creative community itself isn't quite sure whether biotech is good or bad. |
The Motley Fool
April 4, 2005
John Reeves |
Returns That Defy the Imagination Want to save lives while pursuing a high-growth investment strategy? Try exploring the biotech frontier. |
