For the latest articles and media projects by David, go to his website.

David Interviewed by Renee Montaigne about new book, The Geneticist Who Played Hoops with My DNA,"
on NPR's Morning Edition, June 23, 2005

"Five Miracle Treatments Headed Your Way"
USA Today Weekend, June 17-19, 2005.

MIT Technology Review - February 2005
"Implanting Hope," about brain implants that allow a quadriplegic to operate machines using thought.

Wired Magazine
"DNA as Destiny"
November, 2002
2004 Winner of AAAS Science Journalism Award
Selected for Best American Science and Nature Writing, 2003
Houghton-Mifflin, edited by Richard Dawkins

NPR's "Morning Edition"
“Full DNA Rundown Can Predict Future Health”
Correspondent and Writer, David Ewing Duncan; Produced by Chip Grabow):
NPR “Morning Edition,” Aired October 28, 2002

Syndicated Newspaper Column
San Francisco Chronicle
"Science and Creativity"
"Tracking Genes in Iceland," October 19, 2003 (Preview)
"Biotech on the Brink of Breakthroughs," February 22, 2004
"When New Science Ignites a Firestorm," February 23, 2004
"Return of Dr. Faust presents important lessons for scientists," March 8, 2004
"Altered genes in worms may mean longer lives for humans," March 22, 2004
"Without a genetic fix, the banana may be history," April 5, 2004
"Hollywood takes a look at cloning," April 19, 2004
"Hollywood" column also read by David on NPR's "Morning Edition"
"Alice goes to the land of biotech," June 13, 2004
"Is U.S. leadership in science now over?" June 27, 2004
"Trying to save the world on a shoestring budget," July 11, 2004
"Why a cautious scientist supports the stem cell research initiative," July 25, 2004
"Francis Crick left us valued lessons for life," August 8, 2004
"Coming very soon: An "Enhanced Olympics," August 22, 2004
"Venter's goal is creating life in the laboratory", September 19, 2004
"Now welcome to the California Republic of Science," October 3, 2004
"How many trillions for a drug miracle?" October 17, 2004
"Scientific progress can't be put back in the box," October 31, 2004
"Quadriplegic fitted with brain sensor ushers in cybernetic age," December 5, 2004
"Bio-Babel blockades scientific dialogue," December 19, 2004
"This year bio-science must start to get real," January 16, 2005
"Outrage today, normality tomorrow," February 6, 2005
"Hunt for the 'thrifty gene' leads to a south seas island," February 20, 2005
"Mr. Hyde is in remission, Soviet biowar designer now is a professor in the U.S.," March 6, 2005

Look for David's column every other Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle's Insight Section. To read these and future columns, go to the Chronicle's columnists website and click on David Ewing Duncan.

Discover Magazine
“Dialogues” Column
July, 2003: James Watson
September, 2003: Baroness Susan Greenfield
December, 2003: George Whitesides
February, 2004: Cynthia Kenyon
April, 2004: Sydney Brenner (unedited preview)
Look for future columns profiling and interviewing top scientists.
December, 2004: Craig Venter

Acumen Journal of Life Sciences
"The Year Ahead" Issue
January, 2004
Profiles of Trend Setters:
Edison Liu
Steve Holtzman
Corey Goodman
Tom Cech
Stanley Falkow
Heino von Prondzynski
Mark McClellan
Susan Greenfield
Carl Feldbaum

Acumen Journal of Life Sciences
“The Pursuit of Longevity" Long-lived worms tantalize researchers with the promise of extended life.
July/August 2003

SEED Magazine
"The Banana Crusade" GMO Bananas May Save a Major Food Staple of the Poor in the Developing World.
July/August 2003

Wired Magazine
"The Protein Hunters"
April, 2001

Wired Magazine
"Do-or-Die at Yucca Mountain"
April 2003
Named as a runner up for the Houghton-Mifflin Best Science and Nature Stories, 2004

Wired Magazine
"Me Two" News Flash from the Future
April 2003

Discover Magazine
"20 Biotech Geniuses to Watch"
July 2002

June 14, 2001: National Public Radio: Morning Edition. San Francisco Bust
Commentator David Ewing Duncan says the demise of the dot-com goldrush is giving the poets, immigrants and widows the chance to take back the Mission District of San Francisco. (2:43)

July 14, 2000: National Public Radio: Morning Edition. Reflecting on the International AIDS Conference. Commentator David Ewing Duncan reflects on his attendance at the thirteenth International AIDS Conference. (2:55) 

April 11, 1999: National Public Radio: Weekend All Things Considered. Daniel talks with David Ewing Duncan, author of Calendar: Humanity's Epic Struggle to Determine a True and Accurate Year. Duncan says that even though many people are fixated on the dawning of the next millennium, the year 2000 has in fact very little inherent importance. There are scores of other calendars in the world which are just as valid as the Gregorian calendar and for them, the second millennium came and went a long time ago. (6:00)

  July 14, 1998: National Public Radio: All Things Considered. Hosted by Robert Siegel, this program features David explaining the difficult transition from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. It took several centuries after the Vatican decreed the use of a new calendar before the rest of non-Catholic Europe followed suit. (5:30)