Monday, February 20, 2017

Weekly Links February 20 th, 2017



“MUST READ”
Nick Lane is very good at explaining complex biology and biochemistry. He is the winner of the Royal Society's Michael Faraday Prize for 2016. Here's his lecture. It's worth watching if you want to understand the latest informed (naturalistic) specu…
CRISPR REVOLUTION
ith the Broad Institute’s big win on Wednesday in its battle over key patents on the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing technology, everything is now crystal clear. via Pocket
The decision of who owned the rights to a hotly disputed CRISPR gene editing patent came down in favor of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard today so you’d think the mood would be sour at the University of California, Berkeley, the other contend…
It’s been a huge two days for CRISPR, the biotechnology innovation that makes it far easier for scientists to edit DNA in living cells. via Pocket
The CRISPR toolbox is continuing to expand rapidly, opening new avenues for biomedical research. Since the first publications in early 2013, the Zhang lab and other researchers have engineered a number of improvements to the system. via Pocket
TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
Wilson To and Luis Daniel Soto are our guest bloggers today, telling you about a new industry vertical category that is being added to the AWS Marketplace.Check it out! via Pocket
HEALTH/MEDECINE
    • We identified more than 1,300 companies playing in the diabetes landscape. In the network above, 9.6% of companies focus on research and drug discovery, with a whopping $2.9 billion in investment in this area.
COMPANIES
Dans la partie précédente de cette série sur la renaissance des startups scientifiques lancée fin 2016, j’avais commencé par faire un panorama rapide et probablement très incomplet de leur écosystème en France. via Pocket
Vous êtes ici au milieu d’une série d’articles destinées à valoriser les startups scientifiques. via Pocket
SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Price was the first person ever to be diagnosed with what is now known as highly superior autobiographical memory, or HSAM, a condition she shares with around 60 other known people. She can remember most of the days of her life as clearly as the rest of us remember the recent past, with a mixture of broad strokes and sharp detail. Now 51, Price remembers the day of the week for every date since 1980; she remembers what she was doing, who she was with, where she was on each of these days

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