Technology & Society
This op-ed by Brian Greene makes the eloquent case that science is more than just details, facts, and figures. He says that it also helps explain why we are here, why the sky is blue, and other important questions perennially
The WSJ today reported that “New genetic research emerging from a major cancer meeting [annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology] could help doctors better identify the drugs most likely to work in their patients — but sharply
A brain-computer interface was implanted in a Japanese man’s motor cortex. Signals that would have made his own arms and legs move instead went to the avatar’s, making it move. Here’s the video and the story.
CMU researchers may be creating technology that speeds up the progress of medical advances that can help us live longer. From Bio IT world: “The researchers published their findings in a paper last month (“Graphical Models for Structured Classification, with
This should be an interesting conference. The invite says: “At Aging 2008 you will engage with top scientists and advocates as they present their findings and advice, and learn what you can do to help accelerate progress towards a cure
Last week, President Bush signed into law the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA), which will protect individuals from employer and insurance discrimination based on the results of high-tech gene tests. Fighting discrimination is a good idea, but the lack of
If you didn’t get a chance to clone your cat before Genetic Savings & Clone shut down, you now have a chance to clone your Dog. New company, BioArts, is having Woo Suk Wang of Seoul, South Korea perform the
The NYT reports that Dr. Andrew Schwartz, professor of neurobiology at the University of Pittsburgh, and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University have managed to get monkeys to control a robotic arm with their thoughts in order to put food
This op-ed by James A. Bianco, president and CEO of Cell Therapeutics, makes a lot of sense. He says: “What’s missing from the debate is the public policy encouragement to produce more “smart” medicine.” I agree. All too often, anti-aging
This news story from the NYT is good news for John McCain.