Biotech and Human Genome 

Human Genome Project Search Engine and stie (press here). Yahoo News service search engine and list of Biotech sites with stories form AP, BBC and others (press here).

• December 14, 1999 Life Is Pared to Basics. Complex Issues Arise - (press here) NY Times  Touches on some ethics issues.
• September/October 1999  Go to list of links  Mining the Genome By Antonio Regalado - Technology Review (press here) The Human Genome Project has piled up a mountain of data. How will companies extract the gold of new drugs? One emerging tool may hold  the key: pattern-finding software that uncovers therichest veins.
• See Tech Review Past Issues Site for similar items (press here).
• 9/99 Surfing the Human Genome Databases of Genetic Code Are Moving to the Web By LAWRENCE M. FISHER New York Times (press here). ---some  industry executives foresee the day when an educated consumer might take a CD-ROM containing a laboratory's  rendering of his or her genetic profile, and combine it with a Web surf through gene libraries to determine the person's predisposition toward adverse drug reactions, for example, or for Alzheimer's disease, colon cancer or other afflictions that might eventually be treatable through gene therapy.
• October 8, 1999 - Across the Country, Universities Generate a High-Tech Economic Boom By CAREY GOLDBERG - Biotech and Knowledge institutes and buildings at Universities - (press here), "research centers and institutions are undisputedly the most important factor in incubating high-tech industries." The institutions, experts say, provide nearby companies streams of cutting-edge knowledge as well as streams of smart labor.
• What is being done?
• Murphy, Pat (1999) "Campaign to change the world." Environmental News Network, November 1st (press here).