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 ...
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NY Times asks: “Should We Improve Our Genome?” Issues and anxieties.
Read More »More on VOIP
Maybe ACS should follow IBM’s timetable. Big Blue created quite a stir on Nov. 7 when a top exec told a tech conference in Atlanta that it hopes to move 80% of its 300,000 employees to voice-over-IP phone systems by 2008.
Read More »Whither the future of US science and technology?
It’s coming fast and furious these days. An article discussing the impact of offshoring in Silicon Valley (and other places I’d wager). Business types saying it’s just a normal trend; the unemployed angry, not philosophical. “I am not angry with companies for trying to conserve costs, but at the same time, we do have to acknowledge that it’s going to ...
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