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Link Regulations proposed for animal–human chimaeras
The increasingly sophisticated blending of different species to create chimaeras is pushing biology into a new ethical dimension. Last year, scientists used new stem-cell technologies to create a mouse with…

July 22 2011, 1:30am | Comments
Link Perfection Is Not A Useful Concept
Interview with Nick Bostrom Our long track record of survival–humans have been around for about 100,000 years–gives us some assurance that the natural risks have been rather small. If they…

June 20 2011, 9:21am | Comments
Link Jon Ronson On… Voices in the Head
Eleanor Longden started to hear voices in her head when she was at university and was diagnosed as a schizophrenic - a label she totally rejects. Now she is a…

May 1 2011, 11:43am | Comments
Link Bacteria 'R' Us
A few scientists noticed in the late 1960s that the marine bacteria Vibrio fischeri appeared to coordinate among themselves the production of chemicals that produced bioluminescence, waiting until a certain…

October 21 2010, 10:00am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

January 24 2010, 10:04pm | Comments
Link Overhyped Placebos of Doom?
Let’s say a new drug appears to be effective in combating a condition like chronic anxiety and is the subject of popular news stories. When the drug enters clinical trials,…

November 20 2009, 4:35am | Comments

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