Supreme Court nixes human gene patents
The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of human gene patenting not only affirms an important ethical truth but opens the door to potential advances in ...
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Anti-virus for the mind
One of the attributes of the anti-virus is that it is designed to replicate. Scant surprise then; that an inoculated mind is driven to spread it, ...
Matter is Information: On Gene Patents, cDNA, and Spontaneous Generation
Like others, I've been trying to get my head around the recent Duns SCOTUS1 ruling on patentable genes. Here's Tim Morton, and here's me earlier ...
DNA: A Parasite that Builds its Own Host?
Dawkins, the mechanistic world, and the “war on the beautiful” Who can look at images from the Hubble telescope and not feel overwhelming awe for our ...
Thank You, Supremes
It’s hard not to be cynical about the Supreme Court. For all their high-fallutin’ rhetoric, the nine justices usually vote no differently than nine ...
Scientists Sequence DNA of Bacteria Responsible for Medieval Leprosy
DNA extracted from the skull of this leprosy victim, identified in the study as Jorgen_625, was used to sequence the genome of the ...
Meet The Husband and Wife Novelists Talking Israel to The Christian Right
The panel “Standing with Israel: A Moral and Strategic Imperative” at Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition conference last week in Washington ...
Justin Bieber Maybe Shouldn't Drive Cars Anymore
Oh lord. Another day, another incident involving teen menace Justin Bieber and one of his expensive vroom-vrooms. It seems that Justin Bieber was ...
Death Trap
A version of this story ran on This American Life in the June 14–16 episode “This Week.” On Wednesday night in Florida, a man named William Van Poyck ...