DISRUPTION, REVOLUTION
Scientists Announce HGP-Write,
Project to Synthesize the Human Genome Scientists on Thursday formally
announced the start of a 10-year project aimed at vastly improving the ability
to chemically manufacture DNA, with one of the goals being to synthe…
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Plan to Fabricate a Genome
Raises Questions on Designer Humans A proposal by a group of scientists and
businesspeople to synthesize a human genome from scratch is attracting sharp
criticism for dodging the big ethical questions such a step raises.
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TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
Get that Genotyping PCR to
Work EVERY TIME Say you just joined a lab and have been assigned your very own
project to work on. As part of your new responsibilities, you have to breed and
maintain the mutant (or transgenic) mouse line which you will b…
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Cell Culture is No Longer
Flat: Three Dimensional Cell Culture Three dimensional cell culture mimics the
extracellular matrix (ECM) that offers the structure and support for cells in
vivo, thus creating the complex architecture and network required …
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COMPANIES
Not So Verily The folks at
Stat clearly have some good sources inside Google’s Verily startup. They ran a
story back in March about problems with the CEO (blogged about here), and now
they’re back with more opinion from within.
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Exit Interview: Lita Nelsen on
MIT Tech Transfer, Startups & Culture MIT’s approach to nurturing
entrepreneurship has changed a lot over the past 50 years.
SOMETHING
DIFFERENT
Surprisingly Simple Ways You
Can Trick Your Brain Into Focusing What separates strategic, visionary thinkers
from the rest of us? And why do we tend to worry about our ability to remember
names—or where our keys are—rather than loss of cognitive mem…
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