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IDB America
July 2002
Claudia Neira |
Creating lifesaving liquids Gustavo Rojas lives surrounded by snakes. As director of the Clodomiro Picado Institute of the University of Costa Rica, Rojas leads a team of scientists who develop antiophidian serums for the treatment of snakebites.   |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Bettering Ourselves Through Biotech: Greater Productivity, Sharper Memories, Hair Feathers Beefing up muscle without steroids or hormones; rejuvenating damaged skin and heart tissue; ratcheting up memory function. Therapies that promise to enhance human abilities are nearing the marketplace. Funding, however, is hard to come by these days. |
Wired
September 2002
Steven Kotler |
Vision Quest A half century of artificial-sight research has succeeded. And now this blind man can see. |
Wired
September 2002
Amanda Griscom |
Take These Genes and Call Me in the Morning Gene vaccines may be relatively new, but they're the logical outgrowth of two familiar strands of medical science. |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2002
Malorye Branca |
The Proteomics Odyssey Efforts to map the constellation of protein interactions in humans gather momentum as companies vie to provide tools to capitalize on the potential of proteomics. But can proteomics prevail where some feel genomics has failed? |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2002
Salvatore Salamone |
Think Blue ... Again: It's in the Genes IBM has big plans for a new petaflop supercomputer -- Blue Gene -- designed primarily for the life sciences. |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2002
Judith S. Hurwitz |
Software for Life Sciences: A Few Requests At the core of the life science revolution is IT. There is a discrepancy, however, between the emerging technology requirements and the preparedness of the technology industry to meet the needs of this market. |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2002
Kevin Davies |
Hughes Offers a Helping Hand Under the assured leadership of Nobel Laureate Tom Cech, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is increasingly applying its considerable resources to foster imaginative, interdisciplinary biomedical research and education. |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2002
Mark Hall |
Clusters and Candy Wrappers Our lives are shaped by those byproducts of the space race, from CAT scans and kidney dialysis to satellite communications, advanced weather forecasting, and fuel cells. The genomic research revolution will likely provide similarly widespread and unpredictable benefits. |
Bio-IT World
August 13, 2002
Kevin Davies |
Curtailing the Cancerous Cell The highly touted drug Gleevec unleashed new hope in the battle against cancer. Now a group of new drugs, working on the same principle, are showing even greater promise in treating leukemia. |
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