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...proposal will be subjected on Capitol Hill, starting with hearings this week before the Senate Health Committee. Lawmakers also want to know whether patents and other legal obstacles will restrict use of the cell lines and whether they might have been tainted by exposure to mouse cells and bovine serum. G.O.P. Senator Arlen Specter says the doubts that researchers are raising about their own work makes it "a fair pending question" whether political pressure is distorting what should be an ethical and scientific debate. At a minimum, the issue seems to have taken a detour into what one presidential candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bush's Fuzzy Science? | 9/10/2001 | See Source »

...Venter, always one to boast, says his numbers are "a truth serum for the industry." He may be right; Incyte now says what it's got is the number of "messages" sent by genes, not the genes themselves. Their mistake, but maybe their profit too. Because the first consequence inflated numbers mean is that the longstanding "one gene, one protein" tenet of human biology has been thoroughly exploded. And the biotech world just got slapped in the face by a new frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: As the Genome Race Ends, Another Begins | 5/17/2001 | See Source »

...acknowledge, extends from your coasts, as you have said, one thousand miles in all directions, including up, and for the wanton running-doggery of flying our prop-driven spyplane into the path of one of your Chinese hero hotdogs, even as he was in the act of rushing serum back to Shanghai in order to save a dying orphan and sought to take a shortcut by slicing through the People's Airspace that was feloniously occupied at that instant by the nose of the American craft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: With Apologies Like This, Who Needs Insults? | 4/9/2001 | See Source »

...apply the cyber truth serum to our two would-be presidents, I routed their voices directly into a high-end Pentium-equipped computer that was running the Truster 2.4 program. It instantly analyzed the voices and gave out a series of graph readings that clearly delineated the levels of stress, manipulation, excitement and plain old lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Al and Dubya Take a Shot of Cyber Truth Serum! | 10/18/2000 | See Source »

...them into the skin. An option is to surround the antioxidants with a protective coating that doesn't release the vitamins until they are deep in the epidermis. Estee Lauder is using "photosomes," which pop open only when exposed to ultraviolet radiation, in its Re-Nutriv Lifting Serum (available in November). Another approach, favored by Osmotics of Denver, depends on transdermal patches to allow vitamin C to soak directly into the skin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Face-Lift In A Jar? | 8/14/2000 | See Source »

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