Adam Bluestein

In a “web exclusive” for Newsweek (meaning, no room for this in our shrinking paper magazine), George M. Church, Harvard professor of genetics, a co-founder of DTC genomics firm Knome, and an adviser to several other DNA diagnostic companies, writes: “The message is not ‘Here’s your destiny. Get used to it!’ Instead, it’s ‘Here’s your […]

Last year, I wrote an article for Inc. magazine on entrepreneurs who are addressing some of the big issues around water supply, which for the sake of simplicity can really be boiled down to two: increasing scarcity and decreasing quality. Since then, I’ve blogged occasionally on the EPA’s extreme lethargy in acting on a long […]

The Howard Hughes Medical Institutes Holiday Lectures for 2009, presented last week, introduced selected high school students to microbiologist Bonnie Bassler and Baldomero Olivera, an expert on poisonous snails, who discussed their seemingly esoteric studies and the powerful practical applications they are leading to. I’m a huge fan of Bonnie Bassler, a professor of molecular […]