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• Equal Time: Gov. Quinn Response
  March 12 2011
• "Today I have signed House Bill 3659, which requires all companies doing business in Illinois to collect and remit legally required sales taxes. ...More
• Amazon Associates Program Dropped in Illinois
  March 11 2011
• We regret that our Amazon Associate status will end as of April 15 2011, due to legislative action by our Illinois state government. This means ...More

• Mythbusting's Good for Employees, Ecology. eWeek Slide Show on Telecommuting
  September 23 2010
• I'm not into online slide presentations that are bullet point based articles in disguise...More

• Genetic Tests: Halo or Horns? Is FDA a Watchdog, Meddler or a Dawdler?
  August 6 2010
• I'm all for entrepreneurism (being one myself). And capitalism. And free speech. And freedom, the right-to-know... More...

• Chicken or Egg? Scientific Claim of Which Came First Gets Readers Riled.
  August 4 2010
• Vigorous philosophical and religious debates aside, even the protein science gets skewered in the unmoderated posts ...More

• Want Antibiotics with That? FDA "Kinda" Doesn't. Food for Thought!
  August 3 2010
• Like the target of the song "Is You Is or Is You Ain't (My Baby), the FDA doesn't quite come out and regulate ...More

• Would You Pay More to Get Your Patent Application Decision in 1 Year instead of 3?
  July 9 2010
  The U.S. Patent Office is proposing a 3-tier system that allows the applicant to choose from: ...More

• Cars Enable Blind to Drive - Tech Better Suited to Teens, Elderly?
  July 9 2010
• NO WAY!
• That was my reaction when I first read a headline announcing the prototype vehicle being developed ...More

• Deep Thinkers an Endangered Species?
• July 9 2010
• Nicolas Carr, the man behind the hotly debated essay "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" has expanded his thesis in ...More

• BIO 2010 - Natural vs. Genetically Modified Food: NOT an Either/or Issue
• May 10 2010
• The blessings that advances in food technology bring to humanity may be mixed, but these advances are not quite the salvation or damnation ...More

• Food, Inc.? I agree. "You'll Never Look at Dinner the Same Way" after Watching this Movie
• April 22 2010
• I watched the documentary on PBS last night.
• Which is worse? Consumers' and governments' collective sins ...More

• Gene Patents Invalidated
• April 9 2010
• Considering that we've posted new gene-related patents and patent applications in our monthly reports since April 2003, you'd think ...More

• Biotech or Business Process: Which Type Is Worth Patenting?
• February 13 2010
• Because we bring you compilations of gene-related patents and patent applications in the U.S. each month, the title and subtitle ...More

• Brand Name or Generics: Biggest Bang for the Buck?
• February 8 2010
• When you shop, do you clip coupons to get cents off for the name brand or do you typically buy the house brand? ...More

• Environmental Truth: Inconvenient -- or not? What Do YOU Think?
• January 29 2010
• Numerous articles have been written the last couple of months about scientists stonewalling requests for climate data or ...More

• Beware, hot dog eaters!
• July 23 2009
• Yes, that's you (unless you're a vegetarian, which is ok). And me too, by the way. I enjoy hot dogs, not to mention Polish sausage, brats, ...More

• Is the Pursuit of Patents Passe?
• April 21 2009
• Despite the bragging rights of the top 5 or 10 companies to be awarded U.S. patents in any given year, patent value seems to be eroding ...More

• The Root(s) of Drug "Delay-to-Market"
• December 7 2007
• Andrew Grove (former Intel CEO) and Justin Blum (a reporter for Bloomberg) both lament the sorry state of ...More

• Hospital Infections - Hands Aren't the Only "Unclean" Culprits
  September 18 2007

  Reams of paper, many megabytes of files and untold hours of conferences and seminars cover hospital infection control. Indeed, ...More

• Is It Artificial Life or Is It Merely a List of 381 Genes?
  July 13 2007

  A lot of vocal, ink and electronic noise has been raised over the "Minimal Bacterial Genome" patent application by ...More

• Biofuels - The Wide and the Narrow Paths to Energy
• July 13 2007
• Corn, sugar cane, lawn clippings and other food and non-food sources have been used as feedstock to produce biofuel for ...More

• Business Ethics and the Bottom Line
  September 18 2007
• Ethical Reputations of Top Pharma Firms Revealed
• This is one of our selected May 2007 articles.
• Geneva-based Covalence lists multinational companies ranked ...More

• Biopharming Controversy
  August 4 2006

  Another tempest over transgenic products - the product in question ...More

• Biotech – Public Acceptance: Benefits and Risks
  May 16 2006

  Public perception and therefore support/rejection of biotechnology is one of the very important subjects discussed ...More

• Pharma-funded Disease Awareness Campaigns - Disease Mongering?
• May 15 2006
• That's what an Australian report says, referring to US drug industry ...More