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Handheld Delivers the 411 on DNA |
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2:41 pm EDT, May 24, 2002 |
The device is so simple and elegant that it almost looks like a toy. A tiny magnet jumps into a well of fluid, grabs some DNA, jumps into another well to rinse itself off, then another. In the last well, it spins around and releases the DNA of interest and makes it ready for a clinician to identify. Handheld Delivers the 411 on DNA |
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Salon.com Technology | Clone free |
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2:40 pm EDT, May 24, 2002 |
Maybe in 2053, when my clone is having coffee with your clone, the arguments in Francis Fukuyama's cautionary polemic "Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution" will seem as quaint as the early opposition to railroads does today. ... Fukuyama told Salon why he thinks that the right to be cloned and to tinker with our offspring's genes aren't liberties that we should all enjoy, and what should be done to restrain the onrush of biotechnology. I am going to wait until I finish the book to comment. Salon.com Technology | Clone free |
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Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The end of pregnancy |
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2:38 pm EDT, May 24, 2002 |
"In the Brave New World, erotic sexual activity is encouraged and freely practised but completely divorced from the process of reproduction. Huxley wrote his novel in 1932, before the contraceptive pill had arrived. By the 1970s, however, sex and reproduction had branched into two separate realms, thanks, in large part, to the pill. It is also interesting to note that the pill made its debut at about the same time that researchers first began to use artificial insemination on a wide scale. While the pill revolutionised sex, removing it from the process of reproduction, artificial insemination, then later in vitro fertilisation, egg donation, surrogacy and, soon, cloning further separate the components of reproduction from the biological act of mating. The artificial womb completes the process. " See, I think we need artifical wombs, but not for these reasons. We need artifical wombs so that when babies are born prematurely, they still have a chance to develop and live. Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | The end of pregnancy |
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From The Globe and Mail %u2014 Canada's Most Trusted News Source |
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2:36 pm EDT, May 24, 2002 |
"Eleven microbiologists mysteriously dead over the span of just five months. Some of them world leaders in developing weapons-grade biological plagues. Others the best in figuring out how to stop millions from dying because of biological weapons. Still others, experts in the theory of bioterrorism." From The Globe and Mail %u2014 Canada's Most Trusted News Source |
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| Topic: Music |
11:09 pm EDT, Apr 10, 2002 |
Jaron Lanier: "I'm 41 now so I've decided I need to develop my grumpy side. So here's a rant about the sorry state of pop music." I'm not going to include a bunch of excerpts for this one, because I want everyone to read the whole thing start to finish. It will only take a few minutes; like most good rants, it's short, direct, and thought provoking. Where did the music go? |
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