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Handful
of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet While several
influential journals, including Science and Nature, have a stated policy of
treating preprints on an equal footing with papers that have not been posted
elsewhere, few…
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- Unlike physicists, for whom preprints became a default method of communicating discoveries in the 1990s, biomedical researchers typically wait more than six months to disseminate their work while they submit it — on an exclusive basis — to the most prestigious journal they think might accept it for publication. If, as is often the case, it is rejected, they try another journal. As a result, it can sometimes take years to publish a paper
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- regulators are still working out how to deal with such creatures, particularly those intended for food or for release into the wild. Concerns abound about safety and ecological impacts. Even the US director of national intelligence has weighed in, saying that the easy access, low cost and speedy development of genome editing could increase the risk that someone will engineer harmful biological agents.
- In the CRISPR patent fight, the Broad Institute scores big
In the
CRISPR patent fight, the Broad Institute scores big in early motions The CRISPR
patent dispute has two things in common with the 2016 presidential
race: it’s going to last until at least November; and following who’s
up and who’s down is enou…
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- To recap: The Broad was granted about a dozen CRISPR patents for genome editing. UC claimed it, and not the Broad, was entitled to them
Under
the law at the time, patents go to the first to invent something (they now go
to the first to file). The Broad paid for an accelerated review of its key
patent application, and was awarded its
first in April 2014. UC did not pay for such expedition, and so was left in the
dust when that decision came out
The
“interference proceeding” now underway at UC’s request will resolve which
organization is entitled to the key CRISPR patents.
Is
do-it-yourself CRISPR as scary as it sounds? Media reports about the
gene-editing technique called CRISPR-Cas9 have generated some doomsday
scenarios that the technology would be used, as Wired magazine wrote, to create
“designer babies, invasive…
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- Indeed, the current culture of responsibility among DIY biologists, their collaborative style of working and the fact that community labs are open spaces in which everyone can see what is going on reduce, if not eliminate, doomsday scenarios of mutant organisms escaping from basements and causing harm
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- The collaboration has produced six animations that can be watched at the website of the Socialising the Genome project, which is funded by the Wellcome Trust, the Wellcome Genome Campus, and by Genomics England, the Department of Health company set up to sequence the genomes of patients with cancer and other conditions in England.
- Gene Tube
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- Welcome to genetube – a space dedicated to shaping fresh, informative, surprising and shareable bite sized insights about DNA and genetics. Not for profit; just for humankind.
Screening
for Alzheimer’s Gene Tests the Desire to Know Marty and Matt Reiswig, two
brothers in Denver, knew that Alzheimer’s disease ran in their family, but
neither of them understood why. Then a cousin, Gary Reiswig, whom they barely
knew, wrote …
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COMPANIES
Editas
biotech stock drops by 26 percent over CRISPR patent dispute Gene editing
outfit Editas has been one of the most successful tech IPOs of 2016 so
far, with shares skyrocketing up 130 percent shortly after the company’s public
debut.
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Can
Pharnext make a rare disease drug cheaper? An estimated 2.8 million people
worldwide have been diagnosed with a disease known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth
disorder, an inherited muscular atrophy condition. The disease causes
debilitating muscle weakne…
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SOMETHING
DIFFERENT
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- So-called "autonomous vehicles" have for years been a distant dream but technology advances and a push by Google (GOOGL.O), with its huge financial resources, to introduce a prototype have shifted the race to build them up a gear.
Analysts
at Exane BNP Paribas have said they see a $25 billion market for automated
driving technology by 2020, with vehicle intelligence becoming "the key
differentiating factor". But the brokerage does not expect fully automated
cars to hit the road until 2025 or 2030, in part due to regulatory hurdles.
Facebook
is eating the world Something really dramatic is happening to our media
landscape, the public sphere, and our journalism industry, almost without us
noticing and certainly without the level of public examination and debate it
deserves.
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- Social media hasn’t just swallowed journalism, it has swallowed everything. It has swallowed political campaigns, banking systems, personal histories, the leisure industry, retail, even government and security. The phone in our pocket is our portal to the world. I think in many ways this heralds enormously exciting opportunities for education, information, and connection, but it brings with it a host of contingent existential risks.
- Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Pt. 1 | Rolling Stone
Inside
the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 1 Has the
artificial intelligence revolution taken us to the verge of witnessing the
birth of a new species? How long
until machines become smarter than us?
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Inside
the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 2 How much
control of our lives do we want to give over to machines – and to the
corporations that build and operate them? It's a weird feeling, cruising around
Silicon Valley in a…
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