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This week marked the anniversary of the announcement that the satellite radio firms Sirius and XM plan to merge, yet so far the companies have not been allowed to consummate the marriage. That’s because regulators are standing in the way,

The next generation of parents is set to embrace genetic testing of kids for diseases that may occur later in life, according to a study published in the American Journal of Medical Genetics. This is big news given that many

At this week’s Digital Life Design (DLD) conference in Germany, renowned scientists Craig Venter, Ph.D., and Richard Dawkins wowed the audience with a conversation about genes and information technology. They discussed how evolution is becoming man-made, which brings up a

Today, the J. Craig Venter Institute announced that they have created the first man-made chromosome. The next step will be to place it inside a living organism so it can replicate and they can claim to have created an artifical

On Thursday, a monkey named Idoya made a 200-pound, 5-foot humanoid robot walk on a treadmill using only her brain activity. She was in North Carolina, and the robot was in Japan. Dr. Miguel A. L. Nicolelis, a neuroscientist at

This is yet more step on the way to fully personalized medicine. The new test, which will analyzes blood or saliva samples, will soon be offered by ProActive Genomics. Here’s the full story from the NYT.

University of Minnesota researchers created a beating heart in the laboratory by injecting fresh heart cells into a non-living rat heart matrix. Amazing stuff. “In the United States alone, about 5 million people live with heart failure, 550,000 new cases

Hillary Clinton is my friend. On MySpace, that is. If I were going to vote for the first candidate that responded to my social networking “friend” request, it would be her. Of course, that’s a silly idea, but with all

Now you could — in India. Tata just released what they are calling the “people’s car.”

This new study on reducing the symptoms of Alzheimer’s looks promising.