Life Science

Craig Venter sure knows how to grab headlines and set the life science world on its ear. He’s the one who turned the human genome project into a horse race by developing automated techniques to sequence (take apart) the DNA in genes in a rapid and lower cost way. Now he’s evidently closing the loop by developing techniques to synthesize ...

NY Times asks: “Should We Improve Our Genome?” Issues and anxieties.

Innovation: Booster Shot against Cancer Update on cancer vaccines.

Let me plug it again: the Scientific American July issue article, “Untangling the Roots of Cancer,” a must-read for anyone interested in the biological processes of cancer. The article describes three new hypotheses about processes that go on in the nuclei of cells that may be part of the genomic and chromosomal changes that lead to cancer and drug resistance. ...