May 23, 2011 12:00 am
Amateur scientists are "tinkering" with the building blocks of life....but to what end? #bioethics
March 17, 2011 12:00 am
High-tech drug discovery may be the silver bullet for some cancers and the obesity epidemic. #bioethics
December 8, 2010 12:00 am
Forget from farm to plate. We are now going from cell culture to kitchen. Yum! #bioethics #biotech
November 2, 2010 12:00 am
WFU group does it again. Liver in a petri dish...soon to be grown just for you. #bioethics #biotechnology
October 6, 2010 12:00 am
Taking a page from Walmart, barcoding and RFID tagging surgical sponges will keep them from being left inside patients, researchers say. #bioethics #medicine
July 13, 2010 12:00 am
Singularity would mean a future in which humans and technology fully converge, but some voice skepticism about the idea. Why? The complexity of the human mind.
July 8, 2010 12:00 am
Stanford's Drew Endy is an engineer's biologist. He doesn't like to wonder at the messy world of evolved systems; he likes to create new tools for building organisms that do stuff for humans.
July 6, 2010 12:00 am
After years of effort to coax empathy from machines, robots and devices designed to soothe, support and keep us company are venturing out of the laboratory.
July 6, 2010 12:00 am
A bioethicist explores the soul of Venter?s new life form and of his experiment.
June 18, 2010 12:00 am
Right about now, it would be great if we could release into the Gulf of Mexico a vat of bugs that did nothing but eat gobs of oil and digest it into harmless smaller bits.
