When you’re getting new tools to explore disease like the ones mentioned below, it’s hard to wait to see what gets built with them. From the ACS meeting–American Chemical Society, that is. As our understanding of biology increases, the tools of research become almost as important as the researchers wielding them. Currently, one of the major obstacles to research is ...

Researchers at Howard Hughes Medical Institute have altered the genome of mice to express a human protein called PPAR-delta. This change enabled the mice to double their endurance. The genetic transformation is permanent and will be inherited by next-generation mice. With no previous running experience, most mice can run about 900 meters before exhaustion. But the genetically altered mice can ...

Howard Rheingold, the guy who gave us “smart mobs,” now sees a new form of economic collaboration emerging from all the blogs, Googling, open source, Amazon ranking and other stuff. Gives me a sense of deja vu. Wasn’t this called the New Economy a few years back? Anyway, he’s talking it up in a Business Week article. I do think ...

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