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  • May 2025
    • May 2, 2025 DNA Synthesis and Sequencing Costs and Productivity for 2025
  • July 2024
    • Jul 18, 2024 Written comments for Artificial Intelligence and Automated Laboratories for Biotechnology: Leveraging Opportunities and Mitigating Risks, 3-4 April, 2024
  • October 2022
    • Oct 26, 2022 DNA Cost and Productivity Data, aka "Carlson Curves"
  • October 2019
    • Oct 4, 2019 Seeing The End Of Oil at Bioeconomy Capital
  • November 2017
    • Nov 29, 2017 A memorial to Mark Buller, PhD, and our response to the propaganda film "Demon in the Freezer".
  • August 2017
    • Aug 30, 2017 Guesstimating the Size of the Global Array Synthesis Market
  • June 2017
    • Jun 14, 2017 A Few Thoughts and References Re Conservation and Synthetic Biology
  • July 2016
    • Jul 1, 2016 Warning: Construction Ahead
  • May 2016
    • May 13, 2016 Late Night, Unedited Musings on Synthesizing Secret Genomes
  • March 2016
    • Mar 9, 2016 On DNA and Transistors
  • February 2016
    • Feb 22, 2016 Tim Cook is Defending Your Brain
  • November 2015
    • Nov 18, 2015 Video from Lift Basel 2015: Building our Biological Future
  • August 2015
    • Aug 25, 2015 70 Years After Hiroshima: "No government is well aware of the economic importance of biotechnology"
  • May 2015
    • May 28, 2015 Brewing Bad Biosecurity Policy
  • November 2014
    • Nov 14, 2014 Announcing Bioeconomy Capital
  • May 2014
    • May 23, 2014 2014 U.S. Brewery Count Chart
    • May 16, 2014 Biosecurity is Everyone's Business (Part 2)
    • May 15, 2014 Biosecurity is Everyone's Business (Part 1)
  • April 2014
    • Apr 19, 2014 Using programmable inks to build with biology: mashing up 3D printing and biotech
  • March 2014
    • Mar 7, 2014 The most important paragraph of The Gene Factory
  • February 2014
    • Feb 12, 2014 Time for New DNA Synthesis and Sequencing Cost Curves (corrected pub date)
  • January 2014
    • Jan 23, 2014 Building a 21st Century Bioeconomy: Fostering Economic and Physical Security Through Public-Private Partnerships and a National Network of Community Labs
    • Jan 1, 2014 The U.S. Bioeconomy in 2012 reached $350 billion in revenues, or about 2.5% of GDP.
  • December 2013
    • Dec 30, 2013 BAS: From national security to natural security
    • Dec 28, 2013 ACS Congressional Briefing, Tooling the U.S. Bioeconomy: Synthetic Biology
  • October 2013
    • Oct 10, 2013 ASU SOLS Meets Society, 28-29 October
  • May 2013
    • May 21, 2013 Harry Potter and The Future of Nature
  • April 2013
    • Apr 23, 2013 How Competition Improves DNA Sequencing
    • Apr 17, 2013 Planning for Toy Story and Synthetic Biology: It's All About Competition (Updated)
  • March 2013
    • Mar 2, 2013 Updated US Craft Brewing Chart
  • February 2013
    • Feb 28, 2013 Meeting on Conservation and Synthetic Biology, April 9-11
  • October 2012
    • Oct 11, 2012 Are These The Drones We're Looking For? (Part IV)
    • Oct 1, 2012 Are These The Drones We're Looking For? (Part III)
  • September 2012
    • Sep 28, 2012 Are These The Drones We're Looking For? (Part II)
    • Sep 26, 2012 Are These The Drones We're Looking For? (Part I)
    • Sep 4, 2012 Biodefense Net Assessment: Causes and Consequences of Bioeconomic Proliferation
  • May 2012
    • May 1, 2012 Urban Escape Interview at PICNIC '11
    • May 1, 2012 Upcoming Talks in New York Area
    • May 1, 2012 Synthetic biology and "green" explosives
    • May 1, 2012 The Deadliest Virus
    • May 1, 2012 Deliberating Over the Danger from H5N1
    • May 1, 2012 Playing God, from BBC Horizons
  • February 2012
    • Feb 29, 2012 The Arrival of Nanopore Sequencing
    • Feb 21, 2012 Bumps for Biofuels and Growing Pains for the BioEconomy
  • January 2012
    • Jan 9, 2012 Censoring Science is Detrimental to Security
    • Jan 3, 2012 Further Thoughts on iGEM 2011
  • December 2011
    • Dec 12, 2011 The National Bioeconomy Blueprint
  • November 2011
    • Nov 27, 2011 Diffusion of New Technologies
    • Nov 7, 2011 iGEM 2011: First Thoughts
  • August 2011
    • Aug 15, 2011 Biodesic 2011 Bioeconomy Update: U.S. Revenues from Genetically Modified Systems Now $300 Billion, or Greater than 2% of GDP.
  • July 2011
    • Jul 18, 2011 Staying Sober about Science
  • June 2011
    • Jun 27, 2011 It is the End of the World as We Know it, and I feel Strangely Ambivalent: Synthetic Biology 5.0
    • Jun 17, 2011 New Cost Curves
  • May 2011
    • May 19, 2011 Piracy, Food Security, and Global Supply Lines
    • May 16, 2011 Headed out for a little cruise...
    • May 2, 2011 Osama bin Laden and PCR
  • April 2011
    • Apr 5, 2011 Myriad's Lawyers Want to Patent the Periodic Table
  • March 2011
    • Mar 16, 2011 Video from "Preserving National Security: The Growing Role of the Life Sciences"
    • Mar 11, 2011 Ice Loss Acceleration in Antarctica and Greenland
    • Mar 9, 2011 An Engineered Bug that Produces Isobutanol from Cellulose
  • February 2011
    • Feb 8, 2011 Fine PROSE
    • Feb 3, 2011 Ah, technology...
  • January 2011
    • Jan 31, 2011 Garage Innovation and Recreational Drugs
    • Jan 5, 2011 "Garage Innovation" in The Scientist
  • December 2010
    • Dec 31, 2010 Biology is Technology is Temporarily Sold Out
    • Dec 23, 2010 Favorite Books of 2010
    • Dec 18, 2010 Fly On the Wall: 2010 Meeting of States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention
    • Dec 6, 2010 The Economist Books of the Year
  • November 2010
    • Nov 22, 2010 Dipping My Toes in International Diplomacy, or Simulating Combat Flying in a British Taxi
    • Nov 19, 2010 More Stem Cell Magic
    • Nov 19, 2010 Room With A View
    • Nov 8, 2010 iGEM 2010: Slovenia Wins!
    • Nov 8, 2010 New York Times: What's Next in Science
    • Nov 7, 2010 iGEM 2010: Finalists are Announced
    • Nov 7, 2010 iGEM 2010: Midway
    • Nov 6, 2010 iGEM 2010: It Begins
  • October 2010
    • Oct 30, 2010 Surprise Outbreak of Common Sense in Washington DC
    • Oct 25, 2010 The Economist debate on the most significant technological development of the 20th century
    • Oct 6, 2010 The Sims: Garage Biohacking
    • Oct 1, 2010 Hey look -- I have an Idea!
  • August 2010
    • Aug 24, 2010 Recent DNA Cost and Productivity Figures from The Economist
    • Aug 17, 2010 A Few Thoughts on Jury Duty
    • Aug 17, 2010 Ideas Economy: Human Potential
  • July 2010
    • Jul 30, 2010 Liveblogging the Open Science Summit
    • Jul 12, 2010 Presidential Bioethics Commission Presentation
    • Jul 8, 2010 Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues (Updated, and errata)
    • Jul 1, 2010 A Few Thoughts on Water
  • June 2010
    • Jun 28, 2010 Meeting of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues
    • Jun 8, 2010 Yummy, Corrosive Biodiesel
    • Jun 3, 2010 LavaAmp v0.2
  • May 2010
    • May 26, 2010 Debt, Riots, and Now a Plague of Frogs
    • May 24, 2010 Booting Up A Synthetic Genome (Updated for typos)
    • May 18, 2010 Book Talk at Reiter's in Washington DC, May 19
    • May 1, 2010 A Few Biosecurity Notes
  • April 2010
    • Apr 21, 2010 The Economist Ideas Economy: Human Potential
    • Apr 19, 2010 A Few Notes on China
    • Apr 19, 2010 DIYBio and Making at the BBC
    • Apr 13, 2010 China Buys More of Canada
    • Apr 9, 2010 Life Technologies Buys GeneART
    • Apr 6, 2010 "National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats"
  • March 2010
    • Mar 31, 2010 Big Gene Patent (Busting) News???
    • Mar 31, 2010 Catching my breath
    • Mar 19, 2010 Chinese Real Estate Bubble Confusion (Or "On The Frailty of Selective Information")
    • Mar 13, 2010 A Whola Lotta NegaWatts for Harvesting
    • Mar 13, 2010 Bits, to Atoms, to My Stomach
    • Mar 11, 2010 Shame On You, Portland!
    • Mar 10, 2010 DIY Cleanroom
    • Mar 8, 2010 Garage Biology in Silicon Valley
    • Mar 3, 2010 Micro-Brewing the Bioeconomy: Beer as an Example of Distributed Biological Manufacturing (Updated, and again)
    • Mar 3, 2010 GM Potatoes Approved in Europe for Industrial Starch Production
    • Mar 2, 2010 Book Talks at NYC Resistor and Science House in March
  • February 2010
    • Feb 28, 2010 Biology is Technology makes Wired Magazine's Playlist for February, 2010
    • Feb 18, 2010 The LavaAmp at Wired Science
    • Feb 16, 2010 Shell and Recent Biofuels Moves
    • Feb 16, 2010 Whither Gene Patents?
    • Feb 3, 2010 The ErrASE Synthetic Gene Error Correction kit from Novici
    • Feb 2, 2010 Bits, Atoms, and the Future of Manufacturing
    • Feb 2, 2010 Here Comes the Wolf Pack
  • January 2010
    • Jan 22, 2010 25% of US Grain Crop Used for Biofuel
    • Jan 19, 2010 Good Climate Data, Bad Climate "Data" -- Science Always Wins.
    • Jan 7, 2010 Video from The Economist's World in 2010 Festival
  • December 2009
    • Dec 23, 2009 Can't believe it's finally here.
    • Dec 18, 2009 Quote of the Day
    • Dec 9, 2009 In the News
    • Dec 3, 2009 Revisiting Mood Hacking with Scents
  • November 2009
    • Nov 26, 2009 A Spot of Tea at The Economist
    • Nov 20, 2009 Odds and Ends
    • Nov 6, 2009 US Market Value of GM Crops is Approximately $70 Billion
    • Nov 2, 2009 iGEM 2009: Cambridge (updated)
    • Nov 1, 2009 iGEM 2009: the Finals
  • October 2009
    • Oct 31, 2009 iGEM 2009: Got Poo?
    • Oct 31, 2009 iGEM 2009: In the thick of it.
    • Oct 30, 2009 The LavaAmp (prototype) is Alive!
    • Oct 5, 2009 WWF Endorses Industrial Biotech for Climate Solutions
  • September 2009
    • Sep 23, 2009 Are We Cutting Off Our GM Nose to Spite Our
    • Sep 22, 2009 The New Yorker on Synthetic Biology
    • Sep 9, 2009 The Bio-Economist
  • August 2009
    • Aug 27, 2009 NYT on Systems Biology, Eric Schadt, and Sage Bionetworks
    • Aug 26, 2009 And the Innovation Continues...Starting with Shake and Bake Meth!
  • June 2009
    • Jun 23, 2009 Data and References for Longest Published sDNA
    • Jun 3, 2009 Another Step Toward DIYStemCells
    • Jun 2, 2009 The Economist Debate on the Fuel of the Future for Cars
  • May 2009
    • May 6, 2009 Stem_Cells@Home or DIYStemCells?
    • May 1, 2009 H1N1 is a "rotten pot", plus the beginnings of vaccine plans
  • April 2009
    • Apr 30, 2009 On Pandemic Preparendness, Surveillance, and Surprise
    • Apr 30, 2009 More on the genetics of the H1N1 virus
    • Apr 29, 2009 Visiting Europe in May
    • Apr 28, 2009 Confusion over genetic origin of Mexican "Swine Flu" and assorted press nonesense.
    • Apr 27, 2009 H1N1 Influenza coverage
    • Apr 27, 2009 A few notes from Nature Biotech
    • Apr 22, 2009 The Origin of Moore's Law and What it May (Not) Teach Us About Biological Technologies
    • Apr 15, 2009 On the Demise of Codon Devices
    • Apr 5, 2009 Bloggingheads Conversation with Carl Zimmer
  • March 2009
    • Mar 18, 2009 Mood Hacking at The World Economic Forum
    • Mar 17, 2009 "The New Biofactories"
    • Mar 4, 2009 Well, that's it, then.
  • January 2009
    • Jan 12, 2009 Advice for Future iGEM Teams
    • Jan 8, 2009 Tamiflu-resistant Influenza Strains
    • Jan 8, 2009 Carl Zimmer on Synthetic Biology for Biofuels
  • December 2008
    • Dec 27, 2008 Garage Biology Project: Melamine-detection Bugs
    • Dec 17, 2008 Data: Definitive(?) Evidence of Amplification and Accelerated Warming at the Poles
    • Dec 5, 2008 "Saltwater Crops May Be Key To Solving Earth's Land Crunch"
    • Dec 5, 2008 Cheery Reading: "WORLD AT RISK The Report of the Commission on the Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism"
  • November 2008
    • Nov 25, 2008 "Tracking the spread of biological technologies"
    • Nov 25, 2008 Mostly Moved
    • Nov 19, 2008 Judith Miller on Bioterrorism Preparedness
    • Nov 17, 2008 Update on Plans for GM Crop Research in Britain
    • Nov 14, 2008 A "Noxious Cocktail" in China's Air
    • Nov 12, 2008 Gene Synthesis Cost Update
    • Nov 12, 2008 Amyris Opens Biodiesel Pilot Plant
    • Nov 10, 2008 iGEM 2008: Surprise -- The Future is Here Already.
    • Nov 3, 2008 Heading to MIT and iGEM
  • October 2008
    • Oct 27, 2008 Update on Influenza Subtype Activity in 2007-2008
    • Oct 12, 2008 Land Reform in China
    • Oct 12, 2008 Synthetic Biology 4.0 – Not so live blog, part 1
    • Oct 6, 2008 Off to Synthetic Biology 4.0 in Hong Kong
    • Oct 6, 2008 Company Profile: Blue Marble Energy
  • September 2008
    • Sep 25, 2008 Methane Time Bomb Update
    • Sep 25, 2008 Cleaning out some bookmarks
    • Sep 24, 2008 "Methane time bomb"
    • Sep 10, 2008 "Coskata Due Diligence"
  • August 2008
    • Aug 6, 2008 More on China's Economy, Food Production, and Food Demand
  • July 2008
    • Jul 23, 2008 "The Pickens Plan" for Wind Energy: Why Use Natural Gas for Cars?
    • Jul 23, 2008 The Future of China's Economy
    • Jul 10, 2008 Ineffective Export Controls for US Technology
    • Jul 2, 2008 DNA Synthesis "Learning Curve": Thoughts on the Future of Building Genes and Organisms
  • June 2008
    • Jun 26, 2008 "Learning Curves" and Genomics: Thoughts on the Future of Sequencing
    • Jun 24, 2008 "The Big Squeeze: New Fundmantals for Food and Fuel Markets"
    • Jun 18, 2008 More Pieces in the Distributed Biofuel Production Puzzle
    • Jun 17, 2008 What's yours is yours...right?
    • Jun 10, 2008 Biodesic: It's Alive!
    • Jun 9, 2008 2008 US Presidential Candidates' Positions on Biological Technologies
  • May 2008
    • May 28, 2008 The First Meeting of DIYbio.org
    • May 26, 2008 Farming and Economies of Scale
    • May 14, 2008 "Scenarios for the future of synthetic biology"
    • May 7, 2008 efuel100 Web Site Goes Live -- Buy Yours NOW!
  • April 2008
    • Apr 27, 2008 A Step Toward Distributed Biofuel Production?
    • Apr 23, 2008 Amyris Launches Cane-to-Biofuels Partnership
    • Apr 22, 2008 Re-Inventing The Food Chain (or "On Food Prices, In Vitro Meat, and GM Livestock Feed")
  • March 2008
    • Mar 3, 2008 Catching up on the News - Big Biotech Investment by India
  • February 2008
    • Feb 6, 2008 "Laying the foundations for a bio-economy"
    • Feb 5, 2008 Massive Technology Failure
  • January 2008
    • Jan 24, 2008 Publication of the Venter Institute's synthetic bacterial chromosome
    • Jan 18, 2008 The New York Times gets a story title backwards
    • Jan 13, 2008 High Yield Ethanol Fermentation from Synthesis Gas
    • Jan 9, 2008 High yield biofuels production using engineered "non-fermentative" pathways in microbes.
    • Jan 8, 2008 New method for "bottom-up genome assembly"
  • December 2007
    • Dec 11, 2007 Updated "Longest Synthetic DNA" Plot
  • November 2007
    • Nov 16, 2007 Updated, um, Carlson Curve for DNA Synthesis Productivity
    • Nov 7, 2007 The Moon in HD
    • Nov 3, 2007 How big is the Bio-economy?
    • Nov 2, 2007 Off to iGEM 2007
  • October 2007
    • Oct 30, 2007 More Skyscraper Tourism
    • Oct 26, 2007 Oil on the way to a C-note per barrel
    • Oct 18, 2007 When microbes innovate faster than humans do
    • Oct 17, 2007 The Institute Para Limes
    • Oct 5, 2007 Dispelling a Climate Change Skeptic's "Deception"
    • Oct 5, 2007 On the use of the word "Biobrick"
    • Oct 4, 2007 Metabolic rate determines mutation rate
  • September 2007
    • Sep 25, 2007 HTML Version of "Biological Technology in 2050"
    • Sep 19, 2007 Amyris Raises Additional US$ 70 Million for Micriobial Biofuels Production
  • August 2007
    • Aug 23, 2007 Sony's Enzyme-Powered, Sugar Fueled Power Supply
    • Aug 22, 2007 A bit of graffiti re Open Source
    • Aug 8, 2007 The Intersection of Biofuels and Synthetic Biology
    • Aug 4, 2007 More Foot and Mouth Disease in Britain
  • July 2007
    • Jul 30, 2007 Environmental Effects of Growing Energy Crops
    • Jul 30, 2007 Biology Leads Headlines at the New York Times
    • Jul 30, 2007 LS9 - "The Renewable Petroleum Company" - in the News
    • Jul 26, 2007 European Biofuels Travelblog
    • Jul 26, 2007 China and Future Resource Demands
  • June 2007
    • Jun 26, 2007 More Amyris and Biofuels News
    • Jun 21, 2007 The Need for Fuels Produced Using Synthetic Biology
    • Jun 21, 2007 A Synthetic Enzymatic Pathway for Hydrogen Production from Starch
    • Jun 20, 2007 It's Time to Invest in Water Wings
    • Jun 20, 2007 Consolidation in Biological Tech Sector
    • Jun 6, 2007 Asia Biofuels Travelblog, Pt. 2
    • Jun 6, 2007 Rob and Jim's Ridiculous Adventure, Or Asia Biofuels Travelblog Pt. 1
    • Jun 2, 2007 Changes Afoot
  • April 2007
    • Apr 10, 2007 New Microfabrication Methods
    • Apr 9, 2007 Is Biology a science, or a Science?
    • Apr 9, 2007 "DNA Factories"
    • Apr 6, 2007 Synthetic Biology in China
    • Apr 4, 2007 Water Arithmetic for Biofuels
    • Apr 4, 2007 Building "A Better Biofuel"
    • Apr 4, 2007 Enzymatic Production of O-Type Blood
  • March 2007
    • Mar 30, 2007 The Million Dollar Genome
    • Mar 29, 2007 Where Should We Look For Biofuels?
    • Mar 28, 2007 Chip Fab Now Costs US$2.5 Billion
    • Mar 6, 2007 Update on Public Access to "Genome Synthesis and Design Futures"
    • Mar 2, 2007 Thoughts on Open Biology
    • Mar 1, 2007 Farewell PEAR Lab -- You were always overripe.
  • February 2007
    • Feb 26, 2007 Stewart Brand -- “Where are the green biotech hackers?”
    • Feb 21, 2007 "Genome Synthesis and Design Futures: Implications for the U.S. Economy"
    • Feb 8, 2007 On Indonesia and Distribution of H5N1 Strains
    • Feb 3, 2007 H5N1 is back in the U.K.
    • Feb 2, 2007 H5N1 Influenza and Countermeasures Update
  • January 2007
    • Jan 2, 2007 A Few Thoughts on Rapid Genome Sequencing and The Archon Prize
  • December 2006
    • Dec 31, 2006 Will anyone be around for a "Cosmological Eschatology"?
  • November 2006
    • Nov 7, 2006 Microsoft Supports Biobricks
  • October 2006
    • Oct 27, 2006 "Smallpox Law Needs Fix"
    • Oct 25, 2006 DNA Vaccines Update and Avian Flu Tidbits
    • Oct 25, 2006 Daily Outbreak Forecast
    • Oct 23, 2006 Oh Goody -- Prizes for Genomes!
  • September 2006
    • Sep 21, 2006 Anybody in Tokyo Interested in Chatting?
    • Sep 20, 2006 Avian Flu Catchup, 20 Sept 06.
    • Sep 12, 2006 Vaccine Development as Foreign Policy
    • Sep 9, 2006 Geoplasma, Plasma Reformation, and Nearly Perfect Recycling
  • August 2006
    • Aug 31, 2006 Bedroom Biology in The Economist
    • Aug 21, 2006 The Impact of Biofuel Production on Water Supplies
  • July 2006
    • Jul 19, 2006 PowderMed Files for Human Testing of H5N1 DNA Vaccine
    • Jul 16, 2006 Ah, Paris
    • Jul 5, 2006 From Paris :: France 1 : Portugal 0
    • Jul 5, 2006 From Paris :: World Cup Mania
  • June 2006
    • Jun 15, 2006 Comments on Mail Ordering Smallpox Genes
    • Jun 14, 2006 Liftport Book Now Available
  • May 2006
    • May 25, 2006 Confusion Over Indonesian H5N1 Outbreak
    • May 25, 2006 (Not Quite Live From) Synthetic Biology 2.0, Part V :: Fin
    • May 23, 2006 Synthetic Biology 2.0, Part IV :: What's in a name?
    • May 21, 2006 Live from Synthetic Biology 2.0, Part III
    • May 21, 2006 Live from Synthetic Biology 2.0, Part II
    • May 20, 2006 Indonesian H5N1 Outbreak Linked to Cats?
    • May 20, 2006 Live from Synthetic Biology 2.0
    • May 10, 2006 Avian Flu Catch-Up
  • April 2006
    • Apr 28, 2006 Best Synthetic Biology Project Ever
    • Apr 19, 2006 Comments on new FDA rules for expedited development of pandemic influenza vaccines
  • March 2006
    • Mar 20, 2006 Update on H5N1 Evolution
    • Mar 20, 2006 "The Knowledge"
    • Mar 8, 2006 What is the Sound of a Cat Dying from Avian Flu?
    • Mar 5, 2006 Nature is Full of Surprises, and We Are Totally Unprepared
    • Mar 5, 2006 New Rules for Expedited Flu Vaccine Licensing
    • Mar 4, 2006 Avian Flu as a Harbinger of Zoonotic Diseases
    • Mar 3, 2006 Here Comes China
    • Mar 2, 2006 DNA Vaccine for Ebola
  • February 2006
    • Feb 20, 2006 "Biowar for Dummies"
    • Feb 18, 2006 H5N1 in France, India.
    • Feb 17, 2006 Avian Flu in Africa May Have Arrived in Poultry
    • Feb 15, 2006 Liftport Flies 1-mile High Ribbon and Communications Platform
    • Feb 15, 2006 Stem Cells from Fat
    • Feb 12, 2006 Beyond Genetic Modification in Biological Technologies
    • Feb 11, 2006 Bird Flu in Italy, Greece, and Bulgaria
    • Feb 6, 2006 siRNA for Treating the Flu
  • January 2006
    • Jan 30, 2006 H5N1 Death Confirmed in Iraq
    • Jan 18, 2006 Turkey Strain of H5N1 Carries Worrying Mutations
    • Jan 16, 2006 Publication of PowderMed's Phase I Influenza DNA Vaccine Trial
    • Jan 15, 2006 On Hwang Woo Suk and the Stem Cell Debacle
    • Jan 6, 2006 Nature Magazine's Avian Flu Mash-Up for Google Earth
    • Jan 6, 2006 Children in Turkey Die From H5 Flu, But How Did It Get There?
    • Jan 5, 2006 "Playing God in Running Shoes"
  • December 2005
    • Dec 19, 2005 "Testing Drugs on India's Poor"
    • Dec 11, 2005 The Costs of Complying with Open Source
    • Dec 9, 2005 Sun Tries Open Hardware Development, and India Pushes Open Biology
  • November 2005
    • Nov 27, 2005 "There is no scientifict basis to predict [the course of the avian flu]".
    • Nov 27, 2005 Direct Biological Production of Diesel
    • Nov 27, 2005 Avian Flu, and vaccination, in China
    • Nov 22, 2005 Wired Magazine's version of the Global DNA Foundry Map
    • Nov 17, 2005 Phase I Results of PowderMed's H3 DNA Vaccine
    • Nov 16, 2005 Bio-ERA's US Senate Testimony on Pandemic Flu
    • Nov 12, 2005 "Preventing a Pandemic Flu"
    • Nov 8, 2005 Detecting the Avian Flu
    • Nov 7, 2005 How long does it take the flu to evade a vaccine?
    • Nov 3, 2005 Inventing Throughout Life
    • Nov 2, 2005 Is Annual Influenza a Bigger Killer Than We Think?
    • Nov 2, 2005 "Catholic Schoolgirls Unravel DNA"
    • Nov 1, 2005 More on Henry Niman's claims about the H5N1 Avian Flu
  • October 2005
    • Oct 24, 2005 On the Threat of the 1918 Flu
    • Oct 20, 2005 Beamed Power
    • Oct 19, 2005 The Rise of Chinese Biotech
    • Oct 6, 2005 Progress on Cell-Based Therapies
    • Oct 5, 2005 Big Day for Bird Flu News
    • Oct 3, 2005 Tamiflu Resistant H5N1?
  • September 2005
    • Sep 30, 2005 Liftport tests robotic climber for the Space Elevator
    • Sep 30, 2005 Taking Issue With Henry Niman
    • Sep 29, 2005 UN Bird Flu Chief Predicts 150 Million Deaths
    • Sep 1, 2005 PowderMed's H5N1 DNA Vaccine
  • August 2005
    • Aug 28, 2005 The four stages of adopting new ideas.
    • Aug 27, 2005 Synthetic Biology for HIV prevention: "A live microbial microbicide for HIV"
    • Aug 18, 2005 Cheap drug and stem cell trials in China
    • Aug 9, 2005 Biotech Oases -- your gas purchases at work.
    • Aug 8, 2005 Commentary on Flu Vaccine News and Epidemiological Models
    • Aug 1, 2005 454's Microfabricated Pyrosequencer
  • July 2005
    • Jul 18, 2005 Global Distribution of Commercial DNA Foundries
    • Jul 8, 2005 Kazakh Biotech Empire
    • Jul 8, 2005 Viridian PopeEmperor Speaks
    • Jul 1, 2005 The Death of Innovation, or How the NIH is Undermining Its Future
  • June 2005
    • Jun 20, 2005 The Challenges of International Regulatory Regimes for Biological Technologies
    • Jun 14, 2005 Synthetic Biology 1.0
    • Jun 5, 2005 "Influenza Pandemic: Challenges Remain in Preparedness"
    • Jun 5, 2005 Reverse Genetics Primers
    • Jun 3, 2005 Senator Bill Frist's Biological "Manhattan Project"
  • May 2005
    • May 31, 2005 The Economic Consequences of Chinese Pandemic Un-Preparedness
    • May 31, 2005 Algae into Biodiesel
    • May 31, 2005 NIH/NCBI Flu Resource Page
    • May 17, 2005 WHO doesn't have recent flu strains.
    • May 13, 2005 "Indonesia finds bird flu in pigs"
    • May 10, 2005 "Preparing for the Next Pandemic"
    • May 7, 2005 Evidence That GM Crops and Cloned Cattle are Safe
    • May 5, 2005 Splice It Yourself
    • May 4, 2005 Broken Drug Development Model
    • May 2, 2005 Richard Meagher and Phytoremediation
  • April 2005
    • Apr 29, 2005 Another biological chassis and power supply
    • Apr 29, 2005 Acquiring Open Source Projects
    • Apr 28, 2005 Heinz Feldmann on Marburg
    • Apr 18, 2005 It's a Flat World
    • Apr 18, 2005 East Bay Express Article on Open Source Biology
    • Apr 15, 2005 Marburg in Angola
    • Apr 14, 2005 Environmental Heresies
    • Apr 13, 2005 Technology transfer to middle school students
    • Apr 12, 2005 1957 Flu Redux (...almost...)
    • Apr 12, 2005 Space Elevator Conference Update
    • Apr 11, 2005 It's the end of the world as we know it!
    • Apr 7, 2005 Bio-ERA: Thinking Ahead
    • Apr 6, 2005 ProMED-mail
    • Apr 6, 2005 Geographical Distribution of Biological Technologies
    • Apr 4, 2005 Nanobacteria in the News
  • March 2005
    • Mar 29, 2005 Science is the only news.
    • Mar 24, 2005 Ah, the Symphony...
    • Mar 16, 2005 Stem Cell Therapy in India
    • Mar 15, 2005 "Stem-Cell Craze Spreads in Russia"
    • Mar 11, 2005 Mining the Moleskine
    • Mar 5, 2005 The Thousand Dollar Genome
    • Mar 3, 2005 Recombination vs. Reassortment
  • February 2005
    • Feb 28, 2005 Reverse Genetics for H5N1 Vaccine
    • Feb 27, 2005 Detecting and Diagnosing Avian Flu
    • Feb 25, 2005 Unrealistic H5N1 Vaccine Expectations?
    • Feb 23, 2005 Ch 5 of Learning to Fly is Online
    • Feb 20, 2005 ImmInst Chat Archive
    • Feb 19, 2005 Avian Flu Uncertainties
    • Feb 17, 2005 Learning to Fly Draft Chapters Up On Web
    • Feb 13, 2005 WebTV in Paradise
    • Feb 5, 2005 CIDRAP on Flu Bugs
    • Feb 2, 2005 A Few Thoughts on the Tian et al Nature paper and Nicholas Wade's NY Times article
  • January 2005
    • Jan 26, 2005 The Spanish Flu Story
    • Jan 24, 2005 A Confluence of Concerns
    • Jan 21, 2005 Going UP
    • Jan 14, 2005 More Tadpole Press
    • Jan 14, 2005 Tadpoles Unleashed
    • Jan 11, 2005 "Carlson Curves" and Synthetic Biology
    • Jan 10, 2005 Up and running

 

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