"So far, there have been no confirmed cases of gene doping in the United States or anywhere else, though that could change during the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, which is when some speculate

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"When should the plug be pulled on a critically ill astronaut who is using up precious oxygen and endangering the rest of the crew? Should NASA employ DNA testing to weed out astronauts who might

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"...researchers show that a human evolutionary ancestor, the sea squirt, can correct abnormalities over a series of generations, suggesting that a similar regenerative process might be possible i

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Here's a novelty - Michael Crichton talking sense, in this case about genetic patenting. Guess technophobes can come in handy occasionally.

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"The recent discovery that a mutant "clock" gene made some people "early to bed and early to rise," a condition known as familial advanced sleep phase syndrome (FASPS), offere

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"...the Food and Drug Administration says that cloned pigs, goats and adult cows pose no more risk to humans who eat them than any other meat or milk." Progress!

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"...a fascinating glimpse into how far some parents may go to ensure that their children stay in their world — by intentionally choosing malfunctioning genes that produce disabilities like deafne

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"Decaffeinated coffee plants, pest-resistant cotton, and Vitamin A-producing rice varieties have all been developed by introducing genes into plants." De-caff coffee plants? Why mess with pe

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"Cotton that has been genetically engineered so its seed is no longer toxic could provide protein-rich food for poor countries. The researchers say the technology used could make other toxic plan

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Headline of the day. "If they manage to pull off the feat, the human-bovine embryos would not be allowed to develop for more than a few days, the researchers say." Yeah, but they *would* say

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"...a team of European researchers report a "mosaic of modern human and archaic Neanderthal features" in 30,000 -year-old human fossils from Romania."

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"Freeman Dyson among others has speculated about the physical changes that could occur as the human species spreads into the cosmos. How will evolution deal with a colony world in a distant star

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"The evidence suggests that there are gender, age and socio-economic class differences in what is deemed desirable and that many prospective parents would be prepared to manipulate their babies i

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Scientists have identified a gene that just might be the key to the unique evolution of the human brain.

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Chinese scientists hope that growing plants in the novel conditions of orbit will lead to providential mutations, such as increased hardiness or yield. Crazy idea, but it might just work.

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Debating the ethics of animal uplift.

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If you want to build small things, you'd better use small tools. The growing (hah!) field of DNA nanotech. Link via AdvancedNanotechnology.

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Ray Kurzweil waxes lyrical about genetics, synthetic biology and the future of being human. Via Advanced Nanotechnology.

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Jamais Cascio (ex-Worldchanging) rounds up the beef on synthetic biology

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"It's a great time to be a Hollywood screenwriter, but rough on policy makers and business strategists." The New York Times looks at future technology. {Login with BugMeNot}

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In the wake of the Senate's passage of a bill designed to protect people from work or insurance decisions based on genetic testing...

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