P.I.D. Radio 8/5/13: Spies of Life
SPIES HAVE dominated the news of late — the NSA spying scandal has revealed that the US government is basically tracking all our electronic communications. Today we discuss a couple… Read more »
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P.I.D. Radio 7/13/13: Of (Genetically Engineered) Mice and Men
RESEARCHERS IN England announced this week the creation of genetically-engineered mice with artificial human chromosomes in every cell of their bodies. The government there has pledged tens of millions of… Read more »
P.I.D. Radio 7/8/13: Virtually Real
A COUPLE in Philadelphia recently gave birth to a baby from an embryo selected through a cutting-edge procedure called “next-generation sequencing”. This technology was developed to read whole genomes cheaply… Read more »