Are Placebo’s Getting More Effective?

At least some people believe they are – particularly those drug companies whose pipeline champions are being sunk by the famous effect. This Wired article offers a great list of drugs recently entombed by the placebo effect. It also explains it’s history and the concern it is causing in drug development. But I disagree that [...]

Maximising Evolution to Generate new Organisms

The idea of genetic engineering has until now focused on the process of separately modifying individual genes in organisms then selecting out these new organisms for use. A common example is transfecting a gene into a bacterial, yeast or mammalian cell to express a desired protein. A team in Harvard has employed a technique they [...]