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...there a clear and present danger that the bugs might get loose and start a devastating plague? But on a simpler level, this screenplay by Hal Barwood and Matthew Robbins, directed by the former, works very well as a hard-charging chiller. The nasty microbe in the lab turns people into murderous psychopaths when it infects them. And they, in turn, convert the facility into a kind of high-tech haunted house. Kathleen Quinlan is attractive as the uninfected security guard most imperiled by these creatures. She may be scared, but never out of her wits. Jeffrey De Munn nicely...
...Tullman heads Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, which sells a product that lets doctors run a paperless medical practice--including booking appointments online and creating e-prescriptions and, most important, collecting X rays, lab results and medical histories in one database, accessible to physicians and patients. He thinks he's on the doorstep of another transformation. "There is less penetration of information technology in health care than any other major industry," says Tullman. "Someone has said the advent of electronic health records will be as significant as the discovery of penicillin...
...Stem-Cell Breakthrough "Inside the Korean Cloning Lab" [may 30] reported that South Korean scientists have created human stem-cell lines that are perfectly matched to the dna of human patients. That story gave me mingled feelings of delight and worry. Although the whole world is now one step closer to an ideal situation for studying how diseases develop, I worry about whether the U.S. can maintain its scientific and technological superiority. Many other countries have been vigorously pursuing stem-cell projects, while the U.S. government restricts the research that federally funded scientists may do in that field. I hope...
...easy to culture wild microbes in the lab, but much can be learned by sequencing the genes contained in a sample of earth, air or water. Just this past April, scientists from the Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a Department of Energy lab in Walnut Creek, Calif., announced in the journal Science that they had for the first time identified the unique mixes of microbes that thrive in different sorts of ecosystems. In farm soil, for example, there are any number of genes that produce substances that break down plant material--rotting genes, you might call them. In seawater, by contrast...
...rule. Instead of trying to force democracy where it cannot take root, at a cost of thousands of lives, we should choose our man in the region and make sure he has the longest knife. Peter E. Goldman Surfside, Florida, U.S. The Stem-Cell Breakthrough "Inside the Korean Cloning Lab" [May 30] reported that South Korean scientists have created human stem-cell lines that are perfectly matched to the dna of human patients. That story gave me mingled feelings of delight and worry. Although the whole world is now one step closer to an ideal situation for studying how diseases...