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Technology Review: March/April 2006

The Knowledge
Biotechnology’s advance presents dark possibilities. Terrorists can develop biological weapons. Worse, the life sciences could give malefactors the ability to manipulate fundamental life processes -- and even affect human behavior.
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From the Editor

The Loss of Biological Innocence
Advances in biotech present dark possibilities and an editor’s dilemma.

Features

10 Emerging Technologies
This year, our list of technologies that are worth keeping an eye on is particularly wide ranging -- but all of our picks are ready to have a big impact on business, medicine and culture.
The Fountain of Health
Antiaging researchers aren’t likely to find ways to extend life anytime soon. But their work could provide a powerful approach to treating the many diseases of old age.

Photo Essay

Biotech Drug Factory
Inside Genetech’s South San Francisco manufacturing plant

Demo

A Better Toxicity Test
MIT’s Sangeeta Bhatia demonstrates how to grow miniature liver tissues in the lab.

Hack

Toyota Prius
A look under the hood and inside the battery of the world’s best-selling gas-electric hybrid car.

Q&A

Jonathan Zittrain
Preëmpting an Internet clampdown

Reviews

Cinegames
Microsoft’s new Xbox changes the state of play.
Confessions of a Scan Artist
You, too, can commit your life to digital -- and throw away your paper records.
Private Space
Times have never been more promising for proponents of commercial spaceflight.

Notebooks

Assessing the Threat
To predict bioweapons’ effects, we need more data.
Light Bulbs Reinvented
Switch on OLEDs!
Science as a Web Service
XML can supercharge research.

65 Year Ago in TR

An Age-Old Problem
Predictions about gerontology made almost a lifetime ago still hold true today.

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