Cloning-derived technologies warrant intensive research

Science, ethics, and cloning technologies.

Does health research warrant the modification of qualitative methods?

N ow, this is an interesting question: Does the nature of the illness, and the hospital context in which qualitative health research is conducted, force us to adapt our qualitative methods to access the data we need? Can we send our students to courses taught by faculty from education or sociology—faculty with no knowledge of the clinical context or what it is like to conduct research with the ...

Eric Warrant

also argued that politicians should do more to counter the danger posed by climate change “ravaging” the biosphere. He called for massive investment in technological solutions such as biofuels. “They deserve a priority and commitment from government akin to that accorded to the Manhattan project to build the first atom bomb or the Apollo moon landing project in the 60s.” Also at the festival, f...

Cloning technologies for protein expression and purification.

Detailed knowledge of the biochemistry and structure of individual proteins is fundamental to biomedical research. To further our understanding, however, proteins need to be purified in sufficient quantities, usually from recombinant sources. Although the sequences of genomes are now produced in automated factories purified proteins are not, because their behavior is much more variable. The con...

Frontiers in Genomic Assay Technologies: The Grand Challenges in Enabling Data-Intensive Biological Research

IntroductIon We live in astonishing times, not least when we consider the recent rate of progress in science. We are experiencing a revolution, underpinned and empowered by Moore’s famous law and the computational power enabled by that law (Mollick, 2006), that has largely eliminated the traditional scientific bottle-neck associated with data acquisition. Biologists now find themselves a situat...