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Articles Written by: RICK WEISS
Charles Darwin was nothing if not methodical. When the time came to consider marriage, he divided a sheet of paper into two sections, "Marry'' and "Not Marry.'' Under the first heading he noted: "a friend in old age ... better than a dog anyhow.'' In ...
SO COMMON is the phrase "patent pending" on US goods that Americans can be forgiven if they interpret it as a proud proclamation of success. "Our product is so special, we're in line to win a patent!" In truth, however, all those patents pending are a ...
From RICK WEISS,
Boston Globe,
8 Feb 2009
The housing market wasn't the only bubble to get pricked of late. Consider the budget for the National Institutes of Health, the primary source of funding for U.S. biomedical researchers. It, too, has recently had the rug pulled out from under it. And ...
From RICK WEISS, SCIENCE PROGRESS,
AlterNet.org,
10 Oct 2008
Americans don't want Uncle Sam slithering between their bed sheets. But recent events in the field of human embryonic stem cell research suggest we'd do well to let the bearded geezer's foot into the bedroom door a tad.
A few decades ago, the U.S. ...
From RICK WEISS, SCIENCE PROGRESS,
AlterNet.org,
19 Aug 2008
But adolescents who were adopted in infancy are almost twice as likely as their non-adopted peers to end up in counseling for those kinds of behaviors, a fact that leaves many adoptive parents wondering: Do adopted children really have more adjustment ...
Imagine a United States less united than today's, where each state has its own system for approving drugs and medical tests. Time for a prescription refill? Oops, you're on vacation in California, where the medicine you need is not approved. Hurt ...
From RICK WEISS, SCIENCE PROGRESS,
AlterNet.org,
26 Jun 2008
Collins, 58, who took over the institute in 1993 and guided the massive Human Genome Project to completion in 2003, said he has a book project in mind but no other immediate plans. He said he will head into "the white space of unemployment," where he ...
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 9, 2007; A03
Vanessa Alarcon saw them while working at an antiwar rally in Lafayette Square last month.
"I heard someone say, 'Oh my god, look at those,' " the college senior from New York recalled. "I ...
Within days of being injected into mice, the nanotubes -- which are increasingly used in electronic components, sporting goods and dozens of other products -- triggered a kind of cellular reaction that over a period of years typically leads to ...
Three companies -- BASF of Germany, Syngenta of Switzerland and Monsanto of St. Louis -- have filed applications to control nearly two-thirds of the climate-related gene families submitted to patent offices worldwide, according to the report by the ...
