Currently a Visiting Scholar at MIT, Victor McElheny has been writing and editing for publications including Science, The New York Times, and The Boston Globe for more than 50 years. On page 42 he takes a look, five years later, at the human genome project, also the subject of his upcoming third book. ?Many genomics predictions will take many years to fulfill,? McElheny says, ?yet the project has grown larger, more widespread, and more exciting than anyone predicted.?
Glenn McGee directs the Alden March Bioethics Institute at the Albany Medical College. In the second of his regular columns (page 24), The editor in chief of The American Journal of Bioethics considers the Korean cloning scandal. ?Before we crucify the people involved,? he says, we must realize that ?research ethics have changed. In the past 10 years the problems have been less about evil scientists than about complicated relationships between different ...
