The spread from poultry & cattle to humans is accelerating toward exponential increase. It just hasn’t happened yet. SACRAMENTO, California––The clock is ticking toward the inevitable evolution of an H5N1 avian flu variant that easily spreads among humans, but no one knows whether it is ticking in seconds, minutes, hours, weeks, months, or years. […]
Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up To Biotech’s Brave New Beasts
by Emily Anthes Scientific American / Farrar, Straus & Giroux 241 pages, 2013 Reviewed by Merritt Clifton Among the advantages of reviewing Frankenstein’s Cat: Cuddling Up To Biotech’s Brave New Beasts five years after initial publication is the opportunity to see how accurately author and biotech enthusiast Emily Anthes used what she termed her “crystal […]