Business

• Robust Activity by MARIE DAGHLIAN
  Private capital is providing lifeblood for the life sciences industry.
• Weeding Out Feedstocks by MARIE DAGHLIAN
  J. Craig Venter thinks jatropha, a weed that grows in areas unsuitable for agriculture, may be a promising source of fuel.
• What You Know About Funding Start-Ups Today Is Wrong
  Podcast: June 5, 2009

Health

• Saving Through Testing
  Routine diabetes screenings could cut healthcare costs.
• Something in the Water
  The discharge of antibiotics into waterways may spread resistant bacteria and effect aquatic life.
• Knowing Your Ass from Your Elbow
  Study reveals public’s ignorance of the human body.

Magazine

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  August/September 2008
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  June/July 2008 edition

Policy / Law

• How Personalized Medicine Is Transforming Healthcare
  Podcast: June 12, 2009
• Inheritance Tax
  Individuals with family history of genetic disease are at risk of discrimination.
• Unintended Consequences
  Federal regulator warnings lead to changes in depression diagnosis.

Society

• Ticking Time Bomb
  Climate change could trigger a host of environmental disasters by 2050, setting off a wave of massive and disruptive migrations, a new report finds.
• Identity Crisis
  Cancer drug causes patient to lose fingerprints and be detained by U.S. immigration.
• Photo Essay: A Peach of a Time by DANIEL S. LEVINE
  The 2009 BIO International Convention Wraps

Tech/Innovation

• Thinking EARLI
  A new national network of researchers studies earliest possible causes of autism.
• Sins of Omission
  Women are underrepresented in cancer research.
• Living Longer
  Study finds dramatic increase in metastatic colon cancer survival.