“MUST READ”
A few years ago Eric Schadt met a woman who had
cancer. It was an aggressive form of colon cancer that had come on quickly and
metastasized to her liver. via Pocket
TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
The action of CRISPR-Cas9 has been described in
a wide variety of different ways in the media. via Pocket
I speak biology fluently, but the molecular
complexities of the novel genome-editing tool called CRISPR left me as
befuddled as when I peruse descriptions of the inflationary universe. via
Pocket
How do you pick which antibody you should use
in your assay? If you’re starting a new assay and need an antibody for the job,
or if your assay isn’t working and you suspect that your antibody could be at
fault, then selecting a new antibody from the…
HEALTH/MEDECINE
It was a good day for UniQure, a Dutch biotech
company at work on gene therapies for rare diseases. A big pharma company had
just made a billion-dollar investment in its future. Or so the
headlines blared. via Pocket
COMPANIES
Today, my wife Michelle and I are announcing a
$20 million commitment to support the work of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, a new
laboratory space in San Francisco where researchers and clinical scientists
from Stanford, UCSF, and UC Berkeley wi…
La
Jolla’s tech startup Edico Genome Inc. has landed a partnership with Amazon Web
Services, a subsidiary of Amazon that offers a suite of cloud computing
services.
The
partnership will allow Edico’s Dragen software to be available on Amazon’s
virtual servers, helping the company to ramp up processing power. This allows
customers to analyze a genome quickly, harnessing the power of Amazon’s servers
so they can forgo physical hardware taking up floorspace.
With an industry worth €3.5Bn, butanediol is an
important chemical intermediate. Novamont has recently opened the first
industrial plant to produce bio-butanediol from sugars, using
engineered E. coli. via Pocket
SOMETHING
DIFFERENT
When Leonard Cohen was twenty-five, he was
living in London, sitting in cold rooms writing sad poems. He got by on a
three-thousand-dollar grant from the Canada Council for the Arts. This was
1960, long before he played the festival at the Isle of W…
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