Life Science

I didn’t know you could freeze your butt off in Palm Springs this time of year. You can. Unseasonably rainy and frigid weather was a sidelight to the BioAgenda Summit I attended earlier this week with the CA Div past-president and with Julia DeFehr, distinguished giving staff. The thing that’s worth talking about is that—as a direct consequence I’ve been ...

Looks like the passage of Prop. 71 here in California has kicked off a contest to see who’s #1 in stem cell research. Wisconsin just announced its commitment to a stem cell research center at UW to hang on to their researchers, and Tony Blair has said he wants the UK to be the world’s stem cell research leader. Tony’s ...

Ray Kurzweil has published a new book, Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever. Ray is certainly a provocateur. Many of us in the Futuring and Innovation Center group saw him at the World Future Society meeting in Washington, DC, a few months ago. He firmly believes that if you can manage to hang in there another 20 years ...

Last Tuesday I attended the California Healthcare Policy Forum down at Stanford. It was attended by a lot of representatives of biotech and pharmaceutical companies as well as policy people from CA government.