• January 2026
  • Jan 19, 2026 How Fast Is The Energy Transition Going? That Depends On Where We Are Headed.
  • Jan 19, 2026 High Renewable Electricity Generation is Correlated with Increased Grid Stability
• October 2025
  • Oct 11, 2025 Seeing The End Of Oil
  • Oct 11, 2025 Congressional Testimony: Engineering Our Way to a Sustainable Bioeconomy
• 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