Progress towards the ‘Golden Age’ of biotechnology

The Golden Age of Botany.

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The Golden Age of AI

The Golden Age of Microanalysis.

The history of electron probe analysis in the USA in its first two decades is reviewed, with reference to the personalities which were involved, the development of instrumentation and theory, and the technical problems and limitations of that era.

The cloning debates and progress in biotechnology.

The perception by humans of what is doable is itself a great determiner of future events. Thus, the successful sheep cloning experiment leading to “Dolly” by Ian Wilmut and associates at Roslin Institute, Midlothian, UK, compels us to look in the mirror and consider the issue of human cloning. Should it occur, and if not, how should that opposing mandate be managed? If human cloning should have...

The Golden Age of Statistical Graphics

Statistical graphics and data visualization have long histories, but their modern forms began only in the early 1800s. Between roughly 1850 and 1900 (±10), an explosive growth occurred in both the general use of graphic methods and the range of topics to which they were applied. Innovations were prodigious and some of the most exquisite graphics ever produced appeared, resulting in what may be ...