I think Carl gets right to the heart of the issue both in this online conversation and in his book. "Are we really just getting started thinking about this stuff?" he asks. In some cases, it seems that regulators are forcing researchers to go to ...
Yikes. Carl, how am I ever going to get that "parahuman" image out of my head! I get your point. This image evokes the abhorrent reaction that early critics had against the idea of tinkering with any life, even "mere" E. coli. Most people start to ...
Carl, of course, is right in that it wasn't long ago that biologists scoffed at the idea of bacteria being more than bags of chemistry. Carl's thoughtful reply to my question included what, for me, is the best distillation of what virus's "are." He ...
I knew I'd love Carl's Microcosm for the delicious irony of using a mere "germ" to illustrate the mysteries of life itself. Well, I'm also partial to bacteria and their multicellular abilities, which Carl describes wonderfully. . First, as the other ...
On a bright winter morning high in the Colorado Rockies, a slight young woman in oversize hip boots sidles up to a gap of open water in the icy Cache la Poudre River. Heather Storteboom, a 25-year-old graduate student at nearby Colorado State ...
IT’S flu season, and health agencies have expanded their flu shot recommendations to include all children ages 6 months to 5 years in addition to adults over age 50, and anyone, child or adult, with a chronic condition like severe allergies, asthma or ...
IT’S flu season, and health agencies have expanded their flu shot recommendations to include all children ages 6 months to 5 years in addition to adults over age 50, and anyone, child or adult, with a chronic condition like severe allergies, asthma or ...
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