Stuart A. Newman, Ph.D.
Professor of Cell Biology and Anatomy | New York Medical College
Valhalla, NY, UNITED STATES
Stuart A. Newman is professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College.
Media
Publications:
Documents:
Photos:
Videos:
Audio/Podcasts:
Biography
Stuart A. Newman, Ph.D., is professor of cell biology and anatomy. He received an A.B. from Columbia University and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Chicago. He has been a visiting professor at the Pasteur Institute, Paris, the Centre à l'Energie Atomique-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the University of Tokyo, and was a Fogarty Senior International Fellow at Monash University, Australia. He was a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics in Cambridge, Mass.
Industry Expertise (2)
Biotechnology
Education/Learning
Areas of Expertise (5)
Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Vertebrate Limb Development
Physical Mechanisms of Morphogenesis
Evolution of Developmental Mechanisms
Protein Structure-Function Relationships
Social and Cultural Aspects of Biological Research and Technology
Accomplishments (2)
Fogarty Senior International Fellow (professional)
Monash University
Pasteur Institute (professional)
Visiting Professor
Education (2)
University of Chicago: Ph.D., Chemical Physics
Columbia University: B.A., Chemistry
Affiliations (2)
- Council for Responsible Genetics : Founding Member
- Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism : Director
Links (1)
Media Appearances (10)
NIH Plans to Lift Ban on Research Funds For Part-Human, Part-Animal Embryos
NPR online
2016-08-04
But critics denounced the decision. "Science fiction writers might have imagined worlds like this — like The Island of Dr. Moreau, Brave New World, Frankenstein," says Stuart Newman, a biologist at New York Medical College. "There have been speculations. But now they're becoming more real. And I think that we just can't say that since it's possible then let's do it."
In Search for Cures, Scientists Create Embryos That Are Both Animal And Human
NPR online
2016-05-18
But some scientists and bioethicists worry the creation of these interspecies embryos crosses the line. "You're getting into unsettling ground that I think is damaging to our sense of humanity," says Stuart Newman, a professor of cell biology and anatomy at the New York Medical College.
Human Babies from CRISPR Pigs
Huffington Post online
2016-02-29
New genetic technologies like CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing and synthetic biology are leading us to entirely new definitions of disease. Now "patients" include people who want children who lack some of their own genes, or have additional ones that they themselves lack. Also among the new patients are people who in the past were too old to have children as well some women who get sick from pregnancy and childbirth, or even the idea of them. Technological advances on the horizon may eventually offer treatment for such conditions.
Powerful 'Gene Drive' Can Quickly Change An Entire Species
NPR online
2015-11-10
"If any group or country wanted to develop germ warfare agents, they could use techniques like this," says Stuart Newman, a cell biologist at the New York Medical College. "It would be quite straightforward to make new pathogens this way." Scientists have known about gene drives for many years. But they never had a good way to use them...
Scientists can now create generation of mutants—like 'X-Men'—by 'bypassing rule of genetics'
Christian Today online
2015-11-10
New York Medical College cell biologist Stuart Newman meanwhile said these genetic techniques can be used in the near future for terrorism. "If any group or country wanted to develop germ warfare agents they could use techniques like this. It would be quite straightforward to make new pathogens this way," he said...
Powerful 'Gene Drive' Can Quickly Change An Entire Species
NPR
2015-11-05
Biologist Ethan Bier runs a laboratory at the University of California, San Diego where fruit flies are used to help unravel the processes that lead to some human diseases. One day recently, a graduate student in the lab called him over to take a look at the results of the latest experiment.
Pinker's Damn: A Naïve Rejection of Controls Over Genetic Engineering
Huffington Post
2015-09-05
Some scientists like to think of themselves as modern counterparts of Prometheus, the Greek god who brought the creative power of fire to humankind. Privately they may express surprise that an activity - research - in which they take so much satisfaction can (at least potentially) attract public or private funds. But the fact that this occurs, and is indeed routine, only confirms their self-image as foremost among society's heroes. Much rarer is for scientists to question why this money flows to their enterprise, or how science and technology has helped those governmental and commercial institutions with such resources to dispense increase their leverage over everyone else.
Stuart Newman: The Virosphere And Non-Linear Evolution
Scoop online
2015-05-25
t was Stuart Newman who was the first of the Altenberg 16 scientists I discussed developments with following the Extended Synthesis symposium in 2008 at Konrad Lorenz Institute, a meeting I was barred from attending for having gotten out in front of the event with a series of stories and an e-book -- showcased on these pages -- in which I interviewed evolutionary thinkers who had also not been invited to Altenberg...
Three-Parent Baby Law Makes Human Life Disposable, Says Bishop
The Catholic Herald (United Kingdom)
2015-02-04
Among those concerned is Stuart Newman, professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College, who told Catholic News Service on February 3 that he was “very disappointed” by the vote. “With all the science that has been done on this it is still being portrayed as mitochondrial manipulation,” he said. “It is not, it is nuclear manipulation.”
Rethinking Evolution with Stuart Newman
CounterPunch online
2008-08-30
It’s not surprising that Stuart Newman was one of the "Altenberg 16" scientists who kicked off a reformulation of the theory of evolution ...
Articles (selected) (5)
Form and function remixed: developmental physiology in the evolution of vertebrate body plans
Journal of Physiology
2014 ABSTRACT: This paper discusses three examples of morphological motifs of vertebrate bodies and organs, the somites, the skeletons of the paired limbs, and musculoskeletal novelties distinctive to birds, for which evolutionary origination and transformation can be understood on the basis of the physiological and biophysical determinants of their development.
Why are there eggs?
Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications
2014 ABSTRACT: A description and update of the "egg-as-novelty" hypothesis is presented. It is proposed that the major animal phylum-characteristic suites of morphological motifs first emerged more than a half-billion years ago in multicellular aggregates and clusters that did not exhibit an egg-soma divergence.
Limb, tooth, beak: three modes of development and evolutionary innovation of form
Journal of Biosciences
2014 ABSTRACT: Here we compare the embryological processes that shape the vertebrate limb bud, the mammalian tooth and the avian beak. The implied notion of development in the standard evolutionary picture is met only in the case of the vertebrate limb, a single-primordium organ with morphostatic shaping, in which cells rearrange in response to signalling centres which are essentially unchanged by cell movement.
The origins of multicellular organisms
Evolution & Development
2013 ABSTRACT: We discuss the roles played by the cooptation, expansion, and subsequent diversification of ancestral genomic toolkits and patterning modules during the evolution of multicellularity. We conclude that the extent to which multicellularity is achieved using the same toolkits and modules (and thus the extent to which multicellularity is homologous among different organisms) differs among clades and even among some closely related lineages.
Dynamical patterning modules: physico-genetic determinants of morphological development and evolution
Physical Biology
2008 ABSTRACT: While morphogenesis and pattern formation in all animal species are widely recognized to be mediated by the gene products of an evolutionarily conserved 'developmental-genetic toolkit', the link between these molecular players and the physics underlying these processes has been generally ignored. This paper introduces the concept of 'dynamical patterning modules' (DPMs) ...