Cigarette lights up B.U. biolab
Cigarette to blame for fire at site of future biolab – BostonHerald.com Boston Police and Fire departments responded quickly and in strong numbers to the construction site of the unfinished and highly...
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Operation: Crimson Sky II
Bush administration to introduce a devastating livestock virus to the U.S. mainland Plum Island, the US Department of Agriculture boasted in 1995, “was the only place in the United States where...
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Live long and prosper? We might do neither
Biotech body snatchers. A genetically “inferior” underclass. Increased terrorist attacks. Futurists will “make it so.“ (Marketing buzzword alert: “Futuring,” a verb, is the act of exploring of the...
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Vaccine will combat weaponized plague
Another mandatory prick is on the way (First, it was smallpox. Photo: Steven Stehling) from Mark: Plague is a terrorist threat, the University of Central Florida says. According to the university: In...
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Not likely: Engineers "Doing Well by Doing Good"
(Do-gooders? Rice University Bioengineering Lab. Photo: CC Ed Schipul) The engineering professional association IEEE reports that engineers are fairing well. Good for them. But to say they are “doing...
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Synthetic life starts with this cell
Craig Venter & Co. announced this breakthrough today: Daniel Gibson and colleagues have put both methods together, to create what they call a “synthetic cell,” although only its genome is...
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"Open science": Humanity's best hope?
Photo: dno1967/Flickr CC If we are to believe transhumanists, people who bill themselves as champions of superlongevity and artificial human enhancement, 2045 should be a very good year. But we won’t...
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