Anybody know why when you "embed" a flash video in a web site–like the video report below or other videos on this blog, the still image in the embedded picture is just a random frame from the first seconds of the video rather than the first frame of the recording? Drivin’ me nuts.

The rapid advance of genomics in recent years involves one of the American Cancer Society’s early research recipients and Nobel Laureate. We’re also in the early phases of a new era in personal  and social use of genetics.

Take a few minutes to watch this introduction to a little experiment, the FISpace Video Report. Over the next several months I’ll be doing a series of brief videos about what I think are vital topics in science and technology affecting the future for you and me, and for the ACS.      

I’ve seen a couple of things in the past couple of weeks that indicate that priorities about what public perception of which problems need to get more government spending may be changing. Among diseases cancer remains #1, but there is growing awareness and concern about Alzheimer’s. The Alzheimer’s Association released its own facts and figures report a couple of weeks ...