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The Great Gene Grab
Will the frenzy of gene patenting drive innovation-or stifle medical advances?
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September/October 2000
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LEDs Light the Future
Roll over, Tom Edison. Drawing on new semiconductor technology, muscular offshoots of those dainty colored dots could shine bright white light that illuminates the world.
Neil Savage
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The Case for Gene Patents
Drug development cannot thrive without them, argues the CEO of Human Genome Sciences
William A. Haseltine
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The Media Lab at a Crossroads
Fierce competition, radical expansion, a dubious funding model and maybe even a new director spell the end of an era. Can a trailblazing enterprise survive and thrive?
David H. Freedman
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Toward Sharing the Genome
Here are five ways to achieve balance between public and private access to the human genome.
Seth Shulman
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Internet Everywhere
Handheld devices are taking computers from personal to intimate. A new generation of wireless network is coming that could keep everyone connected all the time.
John Adam
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Who Really Invented Television?
Revisionist history says RCA, but in truth it was a Mormon farm boy named Farnsworth. His struggles presaged the battle between Bill Gates and Netscape.
Evan I. Schwartz
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Akamai´s Algorithms
Tom Leighton has the formula for going from MIT math professor to Internet gazillionaire.
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Leading Edge
Gene Genie
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Prototype
Microwave Tumors
Boning Up
Fiber Optic Food Safety
Virtual Diagnosis?
Sunburn-O-Meter
Flowing Documents
Fish Diapers
Robot Lumberjack
Smart Antenna
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Benchmarks
Meeting the Future
Live Wires
Physicists as Entrepreneurs
Something New Under the Sun?
Spinal Navigation
A Genetic Rx for Rejection
Automated Virus Busters
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Pages
Life on the e-Frontier
Mongrels ´R´ Us
Dwarf Standing on Giants
Robot Dreams
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Trailing Edge
Scissors, Paper… Buckeyball
