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Category Archives: Actually serious for once
Putting the person in personalized medicine
It is both one of the hottest topics in biomedicine today and one of the oldest concepts in the healing arts. The genome gurus claim it will eliminate “one size fits all” medicine, which treats the disease, in favor of … Continue reading
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Horace Judson: a eulogy
On May 6, at the age of 80, the writer Horace Freeland Judson died. He didn’t pass away; he would have insisted that he simply die. We worked together for five years, from 1997 to 2002, at The Center for … Continue reading
DNA Day and Body Modification
The scientific study of human heredity has and has always had two types of practical application: relief of suffering and human improvement. Research programs with those ends in mind have existed at least since the beginning of the 20th century—maybe … Continue reading
Anti-determinism on the march!
Nice piece today from SciCurious, guest blogging over at Scientific American. The post is an analysis of a recent article in Nature claiming that by knocking out serotonin in two different ways (both neurotransmitter production and receptors), they abolished sexual … Continue reading
Thalassophilia unmasked
There is no gene for thalassophilia—yet, anyway. My satirical post last week about scientists finding a gene for love of the sea was intended to make a point about how we view genomics today—and a historical point about how we … Continue reading