How does a giant pharmaceutical company reckon with genomics technology? By making a fresh start in how it recruits its scientists, manages projects, and uses computers. Here's how the Roche Group is reinventing how it invents.READ»
Visionary art is art that purports to transcend the physical world and portray a wider vision of awareness including spiritual or mystical themes, or is based in such experiences. Both trained and self-taught (or outsider) artists ...READ»
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.READ»
If you want to live forever, change your skin color, or just firm up those abs from the comfort of your own couch, you might be in luck: Gene therapy is on its way--and it's coming fast.READ»
Genetics, this is your mainstream moment! So says conference founder
and biotech entrepreneur John Boyce, who points to the rapid drop in
DNA-sequencing costs and growing interest in genomics
from consumer-goods manufacturers. ...READ»
In a most extraordinary story, London's Guardian newspaper is reporting that genomics pioneer Craig Venter claims to have created "the first new artificial life form on Earth," as the Guardian puts it.
The Guardian can reveal that a ...READ»
Any carbon diet strategy would be dependent upon clean coal. Since carbon capture and storage is logistically unfeasible, I suggest promoting 4th generation fuel production: converting CO2 mined from coal-fired power plants into fuel profitably.READ»
The driving force behind a genomics technology is conducting a second experiment: figuring out whether he can transplant the energy of a startup into the giant that bought his company.READ»
Can we use genetics to make farm animals greener than nature intended? Scientists are certainly trying--just take a look at the Enviropig, a genetically engineered pig that produces feces and urine containing 65% less phosphorous ...READ»
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.READ»
Chocolate lovers, rejoice. A research team led by scientists at Mars
Inc., the U.S. Department of Agriculture--Agricultural Research
Service (USDA-ARS), and IBM this week sequenced the genome of the cacao tree. Best of all, the ...READ»
About half the world's population eats rice daily. It's one of the globe's most important food staples, said plant geneticist Pamela Ronald. But, she added, around 25% of that rice is grown in flood-prone regions.
Pamela ...READ»
Great news for the cancerphobic, by which I mean everyone: Scientists have cracked the cancer genome! Or at least they've done it for lung and skin cancer, two of the scariest varieties. This is an enormous breakthrough for cancer ...READ»
Scientists at the University of Buffalo have found a new use for nanotechnology--as an extremely precise way of delivering chemicals to the right part of the brain to combat drug addiction. And, pleasingly, the science really does ...READ»
Sun Tzu wrote "The Art of War." Now the threat of smallpox and other forms of bioterrorism has unleashed the next generation of conflict. Welcome to the science of war.READ»
The Fast Interview: The co-founders of 23andMe talk about mixing social media and genetics, a predisposition for Brussel sprouts, and being married to Google's Sergey Brin.READ»
