Denise Caruso

  • Ciao for now

    It's been a good ride. Thanks, thoughtful readers.
  • Artist at work

    Songwriter and composer Allee Willis' new video, "Editing Is Cool," is funky and fun -- and provides a rare window into the creative process.
  • Who is guarding the pharma-crop henhouse?

    Regulators swear the dangers of gene contamination are under proper control. An internal audit begs to differ.
  • Are we playing dice with the biosphere?

    Veteran tech writer Denise Caruso warns us how little we really know about genetic engineering -- and says there's a smarter way to place bets on new technology.
  • Watch it with that transgenic microbe, buster

    Denise Caruso, author of "Intervention," responds to Salon readers who say the fears of synthetic organisms running amok are exaggerated.
  • Cautionary tales of microbe evolution

    While humans plod along, microbe civilizations rise and fall and rise again.

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