Nanomedicine Nears the Clinic
Minuscule "smart bombs" that find cancer cells, kill them with the help of lasers and report the kills. Sound crazy? Guess again. That treatment scenario may be less than a decade away.
Biomedicine
Time, in Brief
Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything
A Death in Philadelphia
An experimental gene-therapy treatment kills an eighteen-year-old volunteer in a clinical trial. Is this the final blow for a much-beleaguered technology?
Every Word a Link
New software extends hyperlinking.
G-Commerce
The latest commercial Web offering: genetic data.
Biotech on the Move
One of the industry's founding fathers, Nobel laureate Phil Sharp, talks to TR columnist Stephen Hall about the origins-and the future-of this high-tech business.
