Biotech

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Biotechnology: Academic, Government & Industry

Interactions and Tensions

Instructors: Charles R. Nesson, Bruce A. Leicher and Gary A. Cohen

Administrative Support: Arielle Silver
Education Technology Support: Dustin Boyer

Harvard Law School
Spring 2006

Classes meet on Mondays, 4:45 to 6:45 P.M.
Pound Hall 204, Harvard Law School Campus
(see campus map and directions)

Syllabus  |  In-Class Question Tool  |  Biotech Calendar  |  Instructor and Guest Lecturer Bios

Thanks to all for an interesting semester!

Contents 1 Journals 2 Daily Notes 3 In the News 4 Quote of the Day 5 Links 6 Tips and Tricks 7 events

Journals

Nesson here:
Ryan Posey
Gary Cohen
D.Vorhaus
David Sclar
Jackie Harlow
Julie Baher
Mike Pykosz
Brenda Lee
Steve Barnes
Lauren Robinson
Gordon Wittick
Jonas Anderson
Soren Aandahl
Laurie Brown
Candice Player
Evan Diamond
Walter Scott
Dimitrios Efstathiou
Matthew Bray
Laurie Burlingame
Michael Furrow
Hide-Tamura

Daily Notes

Class One | Student Contributions\Assignments | Questions and Discussion Class Two | Student Contributions\Assignments | Questions and Discussion Class Three | Student Contributions\Assignments | Questions and Discussion Class Four | Student Contributions\Assignments Class Five | Class Notes | Student Contributions | Questions and Discussion Class Six | Student Contributions\Assignments | Questions and Discussion | Class Notes Class Seven | Student Contributions\Assignments | Questions and Discussion | Class Notes Class Eight | Class Notes | Student Contributions\Assignments Class Nine | Class Notes | Student Contributions\Assignments Class Ten | Class Notes Class Eleven | Class Notes Class Twelve | Class Notes

In the News

• D.C. Circuit Finds New Due Process Right for the Terminally Ill
• "Drug Test Victim 'May Lose Toes, Fingers'"
• Supreme Court Hears Patent Case Arguments Early report on Tuesday's oral arguments.
• "Reviewers Cite Flaws at Guidant" New York Times report on findings by Guidant's own independent review panel.
• "This Essay Breaks the Law" Interesting opinion column by Michael Crichton in Sunday's New York Times, questioning scope of what is patentable in the United States. Do you agree with Crichton? Let's ask Scott Brown about this opinion piece in class tomorrow. . . From Scott Brown
• Calamitous Drug Trial in England A clinical trial on humans, involving a biological (not chemical) based drug, has gone horribly awry in England. Discussion
• Finding the Moral High Ground Interesting article on ethical challenges faced by biotech companies.
• Doctors Refuse to Participate in Execution
  • Well...they refused at the last minute; they were fine with it until the heat was turned up. Perhaps the headline should read: Convicts Will Still Go It Alone with Lethal Injection
    • Concurring opinion in New England Journal of Medicine article, "Doctor C," which can be viewed in its entirety here NEJM
• U.S. Biotech Food in EU
• User:AlMac/News#Biotech_in_the_News
• Dahlia Lithwick from Slate magazine has a great article considering major Bioethics questions as applied to Pharmacists and Physicians.
  • Death and Wal-Mart - Pharmacies, physicians, and the right of conscience
• Genentech: The Best Place to Work Now

Quote of the Day

"Biotechnology has the potential to bring tremendous benefits. . ."
-- John Prescott, Deputy Prime Minister, Britain (July 10, 2001)

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." --Howard Aiken

"In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms." --Stephen Jay Gould

"False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness: and when this is done, one path towards error is closed and the road to truth is often at the same time opened." -- Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man And Selection in Relation to Sex, 1871.

"In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed." -- Charles Darwin

"Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research: human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos. Human life is a gift from our Creator -- and that gift should never be discarded, devalued or put up for sale." - George W. Bush, State of the Union Address, 2-2-06

Links

• for anyone rusty or new to all this "science and stuff," a cartoon gene refresher http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/Exhibits/Biotech/cartoon.html
• a nice introduction to experimental design--maybe the class can pull this one off in the Hark http://www.biotech.wisc.edu/Education/FunFoodStuff/skim.html

Tips and Tricks

• Manage @law email from gmail hooray, no more webclient!!
• [Use Firefox] instead of Microsoft Internet Explorer to prevent viruses and spyware

events

wireless law school debate