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Bio-IT World
January 12, 2004
Karen Hopkin |
High-Tech Search for the Fountain of Youth Dramatic advances may help biotechs develop drugs that slow aging.   |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2006
Schoenbach et al. |
Zap Extreme voltage could be a surprisingly delicate tool in the fight against cancer. The list of effects that scientists have achieved using nanoseconds-long pulses is growing rapidly, though their actual use as a medical treatment is still years away. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2000 |
Science: Greatest Unsolved Mysteries Is there a Fountain of Youth? Will we cure cancer? Can we achieve immortality? Can we create artificial life? Where is the soul? Is the speed of light the ultimate speed limit? Is there other intelligent life in the universe? Can we travel through time? |
HHMI Bulletin
February 2011
Brian Vastag |
Hope Floats With a new arsenal of robust models of ALS, drug development may move to the fast track. |
Wired
May 2002
Brian Alexander |
The Remastered Race Artificial chromosomes and in vitro screening are giving new life to the eugenics debate. The question is not whether we want to engineer embryos but how far it should go... |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Bettering Ourselves Through Biotech: Greater Productivity, Sharper Memories, Hair Feathers Beefing up muscle without steroids or hormones; rejuvenating damaged skin and heart tissue; ratcheting up memory function. Therapies that promise to enhance human abilities are nearing the marketplace. Funding, however, is hard to come by these days. |
Popular Mechanics
March 2008
Glenn Reynolds |
The End of Aging? Inside the New Hunt for a Cure to Growing Old Researchers have started looking into ways to slow, stop or perhaps even reverse the changes that accompany aging. If these scientists succeed, their breakthroughs may lead to major changes in human society. |
Scientific American
September 2008
Melinda Wenner |
Rethinking the Wrinkling: Key Genes Cause Aging Key genes, rather than cell and DNA damage, as causes of aging. |
Fast Company
Elizabeth Segran |
The Eternal Problem Silicon Valley Can't Solve Last year Google launched Calico Labs, a medical company whose goal is to tackle aging and illness. Other companies have also joined in this quest. |
Investment Advisor
December 2005
James J. Green |
Into the Future In the future, which may arrive very soon, your clients will live much longer lives. So will you. Every financial services company will be trying to serve these people. What's your 100-year plan? |
Scientific American
May 2009
Kate Wilcox |
Free Radical Shift: Antioxidants May Not Increase Life Span Antioxidants, abundant in pomegranates, counter free radical damage but may not delay aging. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011 |
Seeing is Believing Today, researchers are finding clever ways to deliver long-lasting, healthy genes without triggering a serious immune response. |
Fast Company
March 2006
Ramez Naam |
The Body: Bulletproof Gene therapy is on its way - and it's coming fast. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Sarah C.P. Williams |
The Goldilocks of Cells Too much or too little cell death can lead to disease. Scientists are learning how to find the range that's just right. |
Wired
January 2001
Brian Alexander |
(You)2 Human cloning has always been frightening, seductive - and completely out of reach. Not anymore... |
HHMI Bulletin
Nov 2010 |
Fusion genes that drive solid tumors are a new target for cancer therapies The success of Gleevec and related drugs has inspired researchers to step up their hunt for the molecular defects underlying other cancers. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 1, 2011
Dickmeyer & Rosenbeck |
From Rut to Racetrack Can the pharmaceutical industry deliver on its objective to make cancer a curable, chronic condition? |
Wired
August 2003
Jennifer Kahn |
The End of Cancer (As we Know it) Diagnosis. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Slow painful death. No more. A new era of cancer treatment is dawning. Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine. |
BusinessWeek
May 24, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
Repairing The Engines Of Life Can research into stem cells and other advanced techniques heal ailing hearts and brains? U.S. labs are hamstrung by the federal government. |
Scientific American
December 2008
Tim Hornyak |
Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells? Shinya Yamanaka discovered how to revert adult cells to an embryonic state. These induced pluripotent stem cells might soon supplant their embryonic cousins in therapeutic promise |
Fast Company
November 2009
David H. Freedman |
The Gene Bubble: Why We Still Aren't Disease-Free When the human genome was first sequenced nearly a decade ago, the world lit up with talk about how new gene-specific drugs would help us cheat death. Well, the verdict is in: Keep eating those greens. |
Wired
January 2003
Charles C. Mann |
The First Cloning Superpower Inside China's race to become the clone capital of the world. |
Reason
Aug/Sep 2000
Ronald Bailey |
Strands of Life Book Review: Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, by Matt Ridley |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Young Again Niche cells can reverse the aging of stem cells. |
Wired
January 2004
Wendy Goldman Rohm |
Seven Days of Creation The inside story of a human cloning experiment |
Reason
January 2006 |
Who's Afraid of Human Enhancement? Scientists, ethicists, American public policy makers and reporters debate the promise, perils, and ethics of human biotechnology. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
New Cancer Therapies As cancer research explodes, the availability of new and innovative interventions is expanding almost daily. |
Popular Mechanics
May 2006
Logan Ward |
Your Upgrade Is Ready Evolution has done its best, but there's a limit to our bodies capabilities. Wanna be Superman? Better call the engineers. |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Catherine Arnst |
Biotech, Finally The past 30 years of biological discoveries, insights into the human genome, and exotic chemical manipulation have unleashed a wave of biological drugs, many of them reengineered human proteins. |
Scientific American
January 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Do White Blood Cells Make Cancer Deadly? The ability to spread underlies the killing power of cancer. The process occurs, John Pawelek thinks, when tumor cells fuse with white blood cells -- an idea that, if right, could yield new therapies |
Outside
May 2003
Bill McKibben |
Mr. Natural Forget the creepy promise of techno-longevity. Instead, take our advice: Live fast, die hard, and leave behind a worn-out, used-up, good-looking corpse. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2011
Cassandra Willyard |
A Faster Knockout With a virus, a needle, and an ultrasound machine, researchers have drastically cut the time it takes to disable a gene in mice. |
AskMen.com
December 12, 2014
Mark Hom |
Slowing The Aging Process Eating right and exercising can help you live longer. |
BusinessWeek
September 5, 2005
Capell & Arndt |
Drugs Get Smart Future medicines will more effectively target what ails you by tailoring treatment to your specific genetic profile. Personalized medicine will also help prevent another Vioxx. |
BusinessWeek
April 12, 2004
John Carey |
Gene-Based Therapy: Back To The Couch Recent setbacks show (again) that biotech needs more patience and less ballyhoo |
AskMen.com
Dustin Driver |
Slow Down Aging For those who are obsessed with youth, there are some things you can do to slow down aging. |
Chemistry World
October 4, 2009
Simon Hadlington |
More sex and grapefruit to keep you young? Scientists have shown that feeding a simple polyamine called spermidine to worms, fruit flies and yeast significantly prolongs their lifespan. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Jim Schnabel |
Oxygen on the Brain An ancient cellular program to protect cells when oxygen is low seems crucial for the production of new brain cells. |
AskMen.com
May 13, 2014
Brett Hoebel |
Skip The Pharmacy. These Foods Will Keep You Looking Young. People don't realize that you cannot reverse aging with skincare products or lotions; that only goes skin deep and hides the signs. You have to go deeper to see that true reversal of aging starts from within. |
Wired
November 2003
Jennifer Kahn |
Regrow Your Own Broken heart? No problem. New liver? Coming right up. The road to regeneration starts here. |
BusinessWeek
July 26, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
The Stem-Cell Flap: Simmer Down Advocates are overstating stem cells' near-term ability to treat grave illnesses. In doing so, they not only distort the science; the hopes they raise among many people who are sick today are also sure to be dashed. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2012
Elise Lamar |
Cells on the Move The biochemical signals that set cells on a journey are as diverse as the tissues they move through, but the engine is driven by constant remodeling of a protein network built from a box of cellular Legos. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2005
Carol Ezzell Webb |
The Body Shops Part human, part machine, replacement organs may one day extend your life |
Popular Mechanics
January 28, 2010
Cassie Rodenberg |
Next-Gen Transplant Techniques Can Stop Organ Rejection About 77 organ transplants are performed each day in the U.S., and more than 101,000 people are on a wait list for body parts such as hearts, skin and veins, according to the Mayo Clinic. |
Chemistry World
April 2010 |
Column: The crucible We are getting better at manipulating cells to grow into the tissues we need. Chemical factors are key, says Philip Ball |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Richard Saltus |
Three-Dimensional Cell Cultures Thinking big but starting small, Sangeeta Bhatia is closing in on her ambitious goal: growing human livers in the lab from scratch. |
Salon.com
August 21, 2000
Lori B. Andrews |
Embryos under the knife The latest reproductive technology is just the next step on our sprint toward human cloning. |
Pharmaceutical Executive
July 30, 2007 |
Tomorrow's Drugs A look at the seven top therapies and technologies vying to deliver the next generation of drugs. |
Salon.com
June 18, 2002
Scott Anderson |
Playing God Bush's bioethics czar Leon Kass wants to criminalize lifesaving medical research as violating the natural order of things. Would he have opposed wiping out smallpox? |
Wired
June 2005
Clive Thompson |
How to Farm Stem Cells Without Losing Your Soul A solution to the stem cell dilemma that even the Vatican can love. |
