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The Motley Fool
December 5, 2008
Selena Maranjian |
Forget the Investing Gene There's no gene standing between you and your dreams of, say, javelin superstardom. And there's no insurmountable obstacle keeping you from investing for a better future.   |
Outside
October 2005
Adam Skolnick |
The DNA Diet Are you wasting valuable munch time on food you don't need? A cutting-edge gene test may tell you exactly what your body requires to stay healthy, grow stronger, and recover faster. The list of amateur and pro athletes jumping on the nutrigenomics train continues to grow. |
Salon.com
September 23, 2000
Jon Entine |
Olympic colors It's obvious that blacks dominate certain sports while whites dominate others. Why can't we talk openly about the genetics of athletic excellence? |
Fast Company
November 2009
David H. Freedman |
The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren't Disease-Free When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens. |
Fast Company
November 2013
Elizabeth Murphy |
Inside 23andMe founder Anne Wojcicki's $99 DNA Revolution If Wojcicki gets it right, 23andMe could help change the health care industry as we know it. "At $99, we are opening the doors of access," she says. "Genetics is part of an entire path for how you're going to live a healthier life." |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
John Carey |
The NIH's Roadmap for Research Charting the human genome was just the beginning. Now the focus is creating pathways that will lead to practical applications. |
Salon.com
May 1, 2000
Arthur Allen |
Listening to DNA The genome project is getting the buzz. But the real breakthroughs may come from labs out of the limelight, like Gene Logic. |
Wired
November 17, 2007
Thomas Goetz |
23AndMe Will Decode Your DNA for $1,000. Welcome to the Age of Genomics A much-anticipated Silicon Valley startup called 23andMe offers a thorough tour of your genealogy, tracing your DNA back through the eons. |
AskMen.com
Anthony Yeung |
Muscle Fiber Training How to maximize muscle growth by training for your muscle type. |
Managed Care
November 2006
Maureen Glabman |
Genetic Testing: Major Opportunity, Major Problems Whether a person is likely to develop diabetes, cancer, schizophrenia, or stroke will be reasonably well predicted, and tests can also determine whether a patient will respond to a given therapy. That's the good part. |
Reason
April 2007
Ronald Bailey |
Testing Your Strength The World Anti-Doping Agency is developing tests for a form of cheating that doesn't exist yet. The agency banned gene doping, the alteration of genes to enhance athletic performance. |
Managed Care
August 2004
Thomas Morrow |
10,000 Cells on a Chip Signal Start of New Era of Diagnosis Diseases will soon be defined by biochemical pathways and genetic interactions. Biochips may identify patients likely to respond to therapeutic agents. All of this is a big deal for health plans. |
Scientific American
June 2009
Melinda Wenner |
Genetic Copy Variations and Disease A new sense for how variable numbers of genes cause disease. |
Managed Care
May 2001
Michael D. Dalzell |
Powerful Opportunities For Good and Greed Genetic advances could spawn incredible improvements in health care. Given public demand, they also pose what may be unmanageable issues of resource use... |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2000
Ronald Bailey |
Strands of Life Book Review: Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley |
Salon.com
August 11, 2000
Jackie Stevens |
Does capitalism make you sick? Gene studies are sexy and well funded, but they can buttress racial thinking and distract the public from the socioeconomic roots of disease. |
Salon.com
May 25, 1999
Arthur Allen |
Is it in the genes? Is it in the genes?: Studies suggest human behavior isn't as predetermined as some thought. |
Salon.com
June 27, 2000
Ralph Brave |
Building better humans The sci-fi possibilities of genetic tampering may soon become real. And there's no law against them. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Sarah C. P. Williams |
Opening the Floodgates Researchers are using exome sequencing -- zeroing in on the genes that encode proteins -- to explore the biology of certain diseases. |
Wired
January 19, 2009
Brendan I. Koerner |
DIY DNA: One Father's Attempt to Hack His Daughter's Genetic Code Nobody can say for sure what lies ahead for Beatrice, because no one really knows what's wrong with her. |
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... |
Fast Company
March 2006
Ramez Naam |
The Body: Bulletproof Gene therapy is on its way - and it's coming fast. |
The Motley Fool
December 1, 2005
David Gardner |
Google This Interview: Part 2 Here is an interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter David Vise, the author of the new book The Google Story, on corporate culture, innovation, and Googling your genes. |
Fast Company
September 2000
John Ellis |
The Secret of Life The mapping of the human genome, says Craig Venter, will change science, research, medicine, politics, health insurance, and the way biology looks at the last 3 billion years of evolution. And that's just the beginning. |
Salon.com
December 19, 2000
Carolyn McConnell |
"The Century of the Gene" by Evelyn Fox Keller A new book argues that there may be no such thing as a gene. At least, it has proved very difficult to isolate a discrete physical item that can do the work our notion of the gene does... |
Salon.com
August 27, 2001
Suzy Hansen |
Science, semi-science and nonsense A professional skeptic talks about what's real science (evolution, the Big Bang), what's balderdash (ESP, Creationism) and what lies between (hypnotism, superstring theory)... |
Wired
November 2002
David Ewing Duncan |
DNA as Destiny DNA is the book of life. It's also the book of death. In the future we'll all be read cover to cover. Here's what it's like to take the world's first top-to-bottom gene scan. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2013
Eliza Strickland |
The Gene Machine and Me Ion Torrent's chip-based genome sequencer is cheap, fast, and poised to revolutionize medicine |
BusinessWeek
May 9, 2005
John Carey |
Dr. Francis S. Collins: On The Trail Of Disease Genes Collins is leading the search for DNA variations that can result in illnesses. |
Salon.com
February 13, 2001
Arthur Allen |
Size doesn't matter As scientists unveil the human genome findings, it turns out we have a lot fewer genes than we'd thought, and not many more than a fruit fly... |
| AskMen.com |
The "Fatso" Gene One hour of moderate to vigorous exercise a day can help teens beat the effects of a common obesity-related gene with the nickname "fatso." |
Salon.com
January 9, 2001
Ralph Brave |
Decoding the genome Six new books tackle human biology's Holy Grail, but each fights its own crusade... |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Seeing is Believing Today, researchers are finding clever ways to deliver long-lasting, healthy genes without triggering a serious immune response. |
AskMen.com
August 19, 2001
Joshua Levine |
The Ins & Outs Of Heredity If you've ever worried that you might inherit something undesirable from your parents, this is your article... |
Wired
August 2000
Jennifer Hillner |
Area 22 The inside story of the first fully sequenced chromosome. |
Wired
August 2003
Jennifer Kahn |
The End of Cancer (As we Know it) Diagnosis. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Slow painful death. No more. A new era of cancer treatment is dawning. Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine. |
Bio-IT World
December 10, 2002 |
Craig Venter Unvarnished (part II) The former Celera CEO covers privacy, ESTs, and his new research institutes. |
Chemistry World
July 2010
Anna Lewcock |
Medicine made to measure Healthcare tailored to suit the genetic makeup of the patient is finally coming to fruition. |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011 |
Crucibles of Dynamism Puzzling pockets of redundancy account for about 5 percent of the human genome. Investigator Evan Eichler found a way to interpret what is happening in these areas of genetic repetition. |
HHMI Bulletin
Winter 2013
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Cellular Search Engine Craig Mello's lab has now uncovered the reason piRNA molecules are so ubiquitous and exist in so many forms in C. elegans: so they can pair with essentially any genetic sequence they encounter during their endless scanning. |
Bio-IT World
June 17, 2004
Michael A. Goldman |
A Hip Approach to Gene Hunting IntegraGen defines the genetic blueprint of complex human diseases and delivers validated disease markers and therapeutic targets for a better diagnosis and a causal treatment of common diseases, based on its unique genomic analysis expertise. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Sarah C.P. Williams |
The Pace of Evolution A close look at the human genome shows the slow and steady beat of adaptation. |
Bio-IT World
September 9, 2002
Kevin Davies |
The Debate Over Race Relations Are self-identified labels of race useful in large-scale population genetic studies? A provocative commentary from a leading Stanford University geneticist has fuelled controversy. |
Reason
April 2001
Cathy Young |
Monkeying Around with the Self Why support for biotech shouldn't foreclose the debate over its moral issues... |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Kendall Powell |
Planarians As Model Organisms All model organisms for research got chosen because they exaggerate a particular biology. |
Bio-IT World
October 9, 2002
Malorye Branca |
The Path to Personalized Medicine The tactics have changed, sometimes dramatically, but hints of the promise of pharmacogenomics are finally starting to trickle in from studies of asthma, cancer, and drug response. |
Bio-IT World
December 15, 2003
Zachary Zimmerman |
Learning the Language of Systems Biology Geneticist par excellence David Botstein talks about his philosophy, science, his mission for integrative science, and what he deems a success for systems biology. |
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... |
Bio-IT World
February 18, 2004 |
The Quest for Complex Genes Genetic sleuths are homing in on genes for complex diseases with the help of new, and some not so new, tools and strategies. |
Sports Illustrated
July 27, 2001
Tim Layden |
A different way of life Trial highlights the peculiar tastes of athletes... |
