Sequencing the Genome of Unborn Babies
The New York Times recently carried a story on its front page that is rapidly spreading in which it reported that an unborn baby's DNA was sequenced. What are the implications? - Leggi
Categorie Bioethics, Innovation and Responsibility
The Age of Big Data
Last week the New York Times carried an article entitled The Age of Big Data that addresses the technological advances that allow the manipulation and analysis of some of the enormous amounts of data generated through Internet use. - Leggi 
Read also: A threat to internet democracy? and Internet, the new superpower?
Categorie Governance, Internet
The Genes and Patent issue
Reversing a longstanding policy, the federal government said on Friday that human and other genes should not be eligible for patents because they are part of nature... - Leggi 
Leggi anche: Marcia indietro sulla brevettabilità dei geni di Margherita Fronte
Categorie Biotechnology, Publications
Open Culture
The website Open Culture describes itself as "The best free cultural & educational media on the web". A claim that certainly sounds worthy of investigation. In this posting we take a quick look at some of the articles posted on the site that may be of interest to the Bassetti Foundation. - Leggi 
Categorie Site
Internet, the new superpower?
This weekend saw the conclusion of the BBC World News series entitled Superpower. The series takes a look at the Internet and its effect upon peoples' lives. The BBC website hosts a section dedicated to the series, featuring interviews and video clips with an impressive lineup of experts within the field. - Leggi 
Read also: Inter - Inter - net by Massimo Bartoli and The problem with social networking
Categorie Eventi
