“MUST READ”
The next revolution in medicine just might come
from a new lab technique that makes neurons sensitive to light. The technique,
called optogenetics, is one of the biggest breakthroughs in neuroscience
in decades. via Pocket
DISRUPTION,
REVOLUTION
I have wondered several times around here about
how (and if) IBM’s Watson platform is going to be able to help out with drug
discovery, and it looks like we may be able to find that out. Pfizer has signed
up with IBM to use the Watson technology in …
TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
So, you’ve designed PCR primers to amplify your
sequence of interest, and you’re ready to go. via Pocket
COMPANIES
Molecular Assemblies, a San Diego startup
developing a new enzymatic method for synthesizing DNA, said today it has
raised $2.3 million in a seed financing round. via Pocket
Biotech is driving innovation and will bring
some of the hottest technology of the future. To help those trying to pick one
of the many biotech hubs in Europe, we’ve compiled a list of where some of the
most exciting companies are. Currently, biotec…
Lygos uses microbugs to convert
low-cost sugar into specialty chemicals used in manufacturing and is now
releasing a technique to make malic acid, an ingredient needed in the mass
production of electronics. via Pocket
SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Every September, largely unbeknownst to the
rest of the company, a group of around 50 Lego employees descends upon Spain’s
Mediterranean coast, armed with sunblock, huge bins of Lego bricks, and a
decade’s worth of research into the ways children pl…
Each morning when she wakes up, Kristy Milland
powers up her home computer in Toronto, logs into Amazon Mechanical Turk, and
waits for her computer to ding. Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), which has been
around for over a decade, is an online platform…
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