Biotechnology

Culture

Gene Master

How a private researcher won the race to decode the human genome

Ronald Bailey | 10.31.2007 3:15 PM

Science & Technology

Open Thread: Ode to the Enhanced, or Whatever Floats Your Boat

Nick Gillespie | 7.28.2007 6:33 PM

Science & Technology

Natural Born Communists?

Some economic game theory suggests we may be.

Ronald Bailey | 4.20.2007 7:01 AM

Science & Technology

Plight of the Bumblebee

Are biotech crops killing America's bees?

Ronald Bailey | 4.13.2007 6:40 AM

Science & Technology

Diagnosing Your Demise

Would you want to know the exact day you die?

Ronald Bailey | 3.30.2007 12:02 PM

Science & Technology

Medievalizing Biotech Regulation

Francis Fukuyama wants to control your reproductive decisions.

Ronald Bailey | 3.9.2007 11:57 AM

Culture

Welcome to Biotech Park

Michael Crichton's latest novel is readable, daring, and flawed.

Ronald Bailey | 3.7.2007 12:03 PM

Stewart Brand

Nuke Power, Biotech, and Megacities—Current Environmental Heresies Will Transform Into Orthodoxies In Ten Years

Ronald Bailey | 3.1.2007 4:18 PM

Science & Technology

Real Flowers for Algernon

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.26.2007 12:43 PM

Science & Technology

Lindsay Lohan: Foe of Free Markets

Brian Doherty | 2.2.2007 7:09 PM

Policy

How "the Gift of Life" Comes Up Short

Nick Gillespie | 1.29.2007 8:15 AM

Science & Technology

On This Day in History…

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 1.12.2007 2:09 PM

Culture

"I'm Basically a Libertarian."

Nick Gillespie | 1.10.2007 1:46 PM

Civil Liberties

Their Bodies, Our Selves

Who owns your body? Hint: It's not you.

Kerry Howley | 12.5.2006 2:29 PM

Policy

Can We Ever Spend Too Much on Biomedical Research?

The answer depends on whom you're asking.

Ronald Bailey | 10.6.2006 3:53 PM

Science & Technology

Artifact: Natural or Synthetic?

Ronald Bailey | 10.1.2006 8:32 AM

Economics

Ova for Sale

The art of the deal in the gray market for human eggs

Kerry Howley | 10.1.2006 8:00 AM

Culture

Embryos For Sale

Is the new service ethical?

Ronald Bailey | 8.18.2006 1:32 PM

Science & Technology

A Guide for the Modern Prometheus

Is there a right way to transcend biology?

Cathy Young | 7.11.2006 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

Mr. Green Genes

An old anti-biotech activist tries to engineer some confusion.

Ronald Bailey | 7.7.2006 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

The Right to Human Enhancement

And also uplifting animals and the rapture of the nerds.

Ronald Bailey | 6.2.2006 11:13 AM

Science & Technology

Human Rights and Human Enhancement

Is genetic modification of people moral?

Ronald Bailey | 5.29.2006 3:25 PM

Science & Technology

The Research Imperative

Curse or cure?

Ronald Bailey | 4.7.2006 10:53 AM

Politics

Who's Afraid of Human Enhancement?

A Reason debate on the promise, perils, and ethics of human biotechnology.

Reason Staff | 1.1.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

Remains of the DNA

How clones, like the rest of us, justify their own misery

Mike Godwin | 10.1.2005 12:00 AM

Culture

The First Eugenicist

Was Francis Galton wrong to want to improve the human race?

Kenneth Silber | 7.1.2005 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

Scientists for Sale

Innovation vs. ethics

Kerry Howley | 6.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Targeting Temptation

The puritanical impulse behind alcohol vaporizer bans and anti-drug vaccines

Jacob Sullum | 5.20.2005 12:00 AM

Environmentalism

Stewart Brand Speaks 'Environmental Heresies' At Long Last

Ronald Bailey | 4.13.2005 10:19 AM

Politics

What is Richard Posner So Afraid Of?

The high cost of the falling sky

Ronald Bailey | 3.3.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Attack of the Killer Crops?

Activists still trying to scare poor farmers with bad science

Ronald Bailey | 3.2.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

What Is Too Human?

The ethics of human/animal chimeras

Ronald Bailey | 11.24.2004 12:00 AM

Culture

Transgenics Gone Wild!

Why it's OK for transgenic plants and animals to spread

Ronald Bailey | 10.13.2004 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

Transhumanism: The Most Dangerous Idea?

Why striving to be more than human is human

Ronald Bailey | 8.25.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

The Best BioDefense is BioOffense

Technology, not regulation, will protect us from bioterror

Ronald Bailey | 3.31.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

It's Alive!

The 200-year conversation over biotechnology

Ronald Bailey | 3.18.2004 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

Leon Kass Learns to Spin

Sage of bioethics wants you to think he knows nothing

Ronald Bailey | 3.3.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

35 Heroes of Freedom

Celebrating the people who have made the world groovier and groovier since 1968

Reason Staff | 12.1.2003 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

The Battle of Valle Verde

Mexican campesinas choose biotechnology over fear

Ronald Bailey | 9.17.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

BioPiracy and Other Myths

Saying "Yes Patents on Life"

Ronald Bailey | 9.12.2003 12:00 AM

Politics

Politics and Evolution

A dispatch from the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences

Ronald Bailey | 9.3.2003 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

Bioengineering Made Simple

Is Human Genetic Engineering Realistic?

Ronald Bailey | 7.9.2003 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

Making the Future Safe

Notes from the World Transhumanist Association's annual conference

Ronald Bailey | 7.2.2003 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

Science Day

BIO2003: Reporter's Notebook

Ronald Bailey | 6.26.2003 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

Policy Day

BIO2003: Reporter's Notebook

Ronald Bailey | 6.25.2003 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

Lunch With the Prez

BIO2003: Reporter's Notebook

Ronald Bailey | 6.24.2003 12:00 AM

Science & Technology

BIO 2003

A reporter's notebook on the biotech industry's annual get-together

Ronald Bailey | 6.23.2003 12:00 AM

Policy

Quacks and Flacks

The pitfalls of seeking a scientific foundation for alternative medicine.

Chris Mooney | 6.1.2003 12:00 AM