Business

• Evolve or Die by PETER WINTER
  How the financial crisis is forcing biotech to change its traditional business models.
• Biotech Takes Center Stage by MARIE DAGHLIAN
  Positive drug data and VC financings boost interest in the sector as big pharma gobbles another biotech company.
• Finding the Exit by ERIC WAHLGREN
  Promising biotechs can still reward their employees and investors in these challenging times, but they’ll have to be more flexible and creative.

Health

• Smog’s Brain Fog by KRISTI EATON
  Childrens’ IQs can be affected by a mother's exposure to urban air pollutants.
• Career Compromise
  Female surgeons are generally happy with their profession, but the job competes with family for women’s time, survey finds.
• When “Fingerprints” Are on the Inside
  Researchers believe no two people have the same metabolism in a discovery that could boost medicine tailored to the individual.

Magazine

• 
  August/September 2008
• 
  June/July 2008 edition

Policy / Law

• Making Comparisons Effective
  Any cost-versus-efficiency studies of healthcare should consider at least five elements, researchers say.
• How Personalized Medicine Is Transforming Healthcare
  Podcast: June 12, 2009
• Inheritance Tax
  Individuals with family history of genetic disease are at risk of discrimination.

Society

• Power of Prayer
  Novel social history of intercessory prayer studies reveals growing religious diversity and diminishing belief in science to measure the value of prayer.
• 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.

Tech/Innovation

• New Approaches to Treatment Needed in Pediatric Cancer
  Podcast: July 24, 2009
• A Step Toward A Diabetes Cure by KRISTI EATON
  Scientists find a key gene that determines whether an embryonic cell in mice becomes a pancreatic cell or biliary cell.
• Oral Fixation by KRISTI EATON
  Scientists use human embryonic stem cells to engineer tissues mimicking human skin that could treat mouth and skin conditions.