Researchers who leverage public data for life-changing medical breakthroughs have long promised that donors can remain anonymous. The truth is, we’re going to have to choose between innovati... Read more
Design software company Autodesk has teamed up with bioprinting company Organovo to try to deliver us the future of personalized medicine: new organs that can be printed up just for you. Tak... Read more
It’s time for real patent reform Andy Kessler has one of his typically insightful Wall Street Journal opinion pieces in which he says it’s time for real patent reform (rather tha... Read more
Thousands of these robots are expected to be introduced in the U.S. In the next few years, tasks like delivering medication and food or transporting laundry and trash could be carried out by... Read more
Worth Repeating . . . The London Evening Standard is to become a free newspaper. About 600,000 copies of the paper – which currently costs 50p – will be given out in London from... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Is charity the newspaper industry’s last, best hope? “WHAT’S black and white and red all over?” the television interviewer asks Bill Keller, editor-in-chief of the... Read more
With the New York Times announcing that it will start charging for its website, an examination of why scientific and journalistic publishing seem to be headed in opposite directions. The New... Read more