There Is No Other
December 14, 2023
affordable housing, are the young suffering because of elderly needs?, Climate change, Donald Trump, drop in diabetes medication cost, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Elon Musk, govt & big Pharma, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Kai Bird, Leona Helm, Lewis Strauss, Michael Hiltzik, Mickey Rapkin, Scott Greenberg, Social Security and Medicare costs, Tax Foundation, the rich don't pay taxes, Vladimir Putin, young people forced to live with parents6 Comments
The mother sitting across from me at the lunch table sighed when I asked about her daughter. “She’s thinking about moving to Pennsylvania. Since she works from home, she can live anywhere. Rural Pennsylvania seems to be the one place where houses are affordable. “ The dile
Continue Reading →An Ethical Minefield Where Control Invites Chaos
June 19, 2017
Broad Institute, Coming to Terms with CRISPR, Crack in Creation, CRSPR, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Feng Zang, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Jennifer Doudna, Robert Kolker
When Jennifer Doudna at Berkley and Emmanuelle Charpentier of France collaborated on their CRISPR research, a gene-editing tool, (Blogs 9/11/15, 6/15/16) they little imagined they’d be starting a war. But when Feng Zang, of the Broad Institute at Harvard/MIT, tried to patent his
Continue Reading →