What's New in Life Science Research

Marcy Darnovsky, Ph.D., is Associate Executive Director at the Center for Genetics and Society (www.genetics-and-society.org), an Oakland, California-based public affairs organization working to encourage responsible uses and effective societal governance of new reproductive and genetic technologies. She speaks and writes widely on the politics of human biotechnology, focusing on their feminist, social justice, human rights, health equity, and public-interest implications.

Hsien-Hsien Lei is a PhD-trained epidemiologist and biotech consultant. She graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Human Biology and received her PhD from the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health in Epidemiology, Division of Genetic Epidemiology. She has been blogging about science and health since 2005 and was the founding editor of the b5media Science and Health Channel as well as founding author of GeneticsAndHealth.com, AHeartyLife.com, and PlayLibrary.com. For a time, she was also Community Director of wurk.net and wrote healthcare.wurk.net. She now works at DNA Direct as a Genetics Information Specialist and blogs at Eye on DNA.

Mike the Mad Biologist is a biologist specializing in evolutionary biology and microbiology. He blogs here on ScienceBlogs at Mike the Mad Biologist.

Pamela Ronald is Professor of Plant Pathology and Chair of the Plant Genomics Program at the University of California, Davis, where she studies the role that genes play in a plant's response to its environment. She also blogs at Tomorrow's Table and is co-author of Tomorrow's Table: Organic Farming, Genetics, and the Future of Food. Pamela may be reached at pcronald@ucdavis.edu.







Janet D. Stemwedel (whose nom de blog is Dr. Free-Ride) is an associate professor of philosophy at San Jose State University. Before becoming a philosopher, she earned a Ph.D. in physical chemistry. She blogs here on ScienceBlogs at Adventures in Ethics and Science. Email her at dr.freeride@gmail.com.

Alexandra M. Stern is the Zina Pitcher Collegiate Professor in the History of Medicine at the University of Michigan, where she is also Associate Director of the Center for the History of Medicine, and Associate Professor in the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology, American Culture, and History. She has written widely on the history of eugenics and genetics, and her book Eugenic Nation: Faults and Frontiers of Better Breeding in Modern America won the 2006 Arthur Viseltear Prize from the American Public Health Association.

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