Did the gene-drug revolution just arrive?
Did the genomic revolution arrive last week, or was that just the snowstorm? The answer depends on whom you listened to and what they thought of a study publish...
Category: Biotech
On Ending Blindness
I spent much of last winter working on a story about what it might take to end global blindness. I’m tickled to see the result now on and inside the cover...
Biology/Biotech/Brains and Behavior/Culture/Culture of Science/Genetics/Readings/The Best Thing I Read Just Now
Brooke Borel’s strange story about Kevin Folta interviewing himself, among other (mis)adventures
The Kevin Folta/GMO/Monsanto/Right-to-Know/conflict-of-interest variety show and bazaar — a saga about a food scientist who took $25,000 from Monsanto wi...
Biology/Biotech/Culture/Culture of Science/Genetics/Healthcare policy/History of science/Medicine/Politics/Psychiatry/Published elsewhere
The limits of genetics – my essay at Buzzfeed
A bit late to my own story here, as a reporting trip intervened, but but a couple weeks ago I wrote an essay for Buzzfeed about the overselling of medical genom...
Is SCOTUS’s gambit to wreck healthcare unprecedented?
Linda Greenhouse says it is — and that next to SCOTUS’s decision to put Obamacare on the choppping block, Bush v. Gore was nothing. There was no urgency. There ...
Read two* of these and call. Wed Jul 2 2014 edition
Rose Eveleth on a long string of virtual visits to the real town that shares her name In what was once a lively town, the mining industry collapsed, the populat...
Will the FDA Regulate Just Genetic Risk Data, or All Risk Data?
The latest in the 23andme versus FDA saga, in which the FDA halted 23andme from offering health-risk analyses of the genotyping service the company sells, comes...
Aglitter in the Net: Recent reads, 7 Jan 2014
US soldiers escort Dutch girls in costume to a concert after the 1945 liberation. See above. You’re welcome. Via @HistoricalPics A Lonely Quest for Facts ...
A Lonely Quest for Facts on Genetically Modified Crops
Amy Harmon, in the New York Times, on the efforts of a Hawaiian county council to respond properly to a bill proposing a ban on all GMO crops: What really stuck...
23andMe Ceases Providing Health-Risk Info; Ancestry Only Now
The company announced today that in reaction to the FDA’s order to marketing health-related information based on its genetic testing, it will cease provid...