NewsBlog: Genomes in the Supermarket Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 22nd December 2005 09:01 PM GMT] I can no longer shop happily. Representing the first genomics craze to hit supermarket shelves, Sciona, a Colorado based biotech just started marketing a nutrigenomics product called Cellf in supermarkets for about $100. These kits include a lifestyle-assessment and family-profile questionnaire and a cheek swab. Mail in the lot and you?ll get back a genetically personalized recommendation for living healthy. A collaboration with the supermarket chain includes specific advice from... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Discovery Institute?s Silver Lining Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 21st December 2005 11:36 AM GMT] The Discovery Institute, a well funded Intelligent Design mouthpiece, offered a scathing review of Judge John E. Jones III?s decision in Kitzmiller vs. The Dover Area School District. This is the same Discovery Institute that had all but deserted the school board in an effort to distance themselves from proceedings admonishing the board for stepping so early into the fray of teaching their fledgling... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Judge Jones Kicks out ID Posted by Brendan Maher [Entry posted at 21st December 2005 11:33 AM GMT] Judge John E. Jones III ruled that the mention of Intelligent Design in Dover area high schools as an alternative to evolution was not only unconstitutional but unscientific. In the final days of the case it appeared more and more apparent that the judge was less than impressed by the arguments of the defendants as they bumblingly tried to cover their motivation for injecting ID into the schools. But Jones? ruling really takes the whole ID hypothesis to task as a blatant and undeniable... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Science speaks about cloning controversy Posted by Alison McCook [Entry posted at 16th December 2005 09:05 PM GMT] At a press conference today (December 16), Science editor-in-chief Donald Kennedy and deputy editor for life sciences Katrina Kelner presented their side of the story in the ongoing controversy over a cloning paper the journal published this year. Since the article, last author Gerald Schatten of the University of Pittsburgh has pulled out of a collaboration with his Korean co-authors, and first author Woo-suk Hwang admitted to... Click to continue Comment on this blog NewsBlog: Intelligent Design on the Skids? Posted by Tabitha M. Powledge [Entry posted at 4th December 2005 03:49 PM GMT] A piece in this morning's New York Times is reporting that, despite what you've been hearing, the Intelligent Design take on evolution "is failing to gain the traction its supporters had hoped for." As my Mom used to say, "From their lips to God's... Click to continue Comment on this blog

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