Monday, April 11, 2016

Weekly Links April 11 th, 2016



“MUST READ”
The sugar conspiracy In 1972, a British scientist sounded the alarm that sugar – and not fat – was the greatest danger to our health. But his findings were ridiculed and his reputation ruined. How did the world’s top nutrition scientists get it so w…
DISRUPTION, REVOLUTION
Get Started in Genome Editing with CRISPR – Bitesize Bio What was once a dream is now reality: You can now target and selectively edit the genome, thanks to the CRISPR/Cas9 technology. Changing forever how we approach biological questions. CRISPR/Ca…
TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
Craig Venter Part II: Critical Tools and Technologies in Synthetic Genomics GEN: Looking ahead, what would you identify as one or a few of the most significant hurdles that still represent major roadblocks to being able to apply efficiently and effe…
World’s Smallest Real-Time PCR Device I think we’re all fascinated by catchy headlines touting the world’s biggest, tallest, etc., so a recent publication by Ahrberg et al. in venerable Lab on a Chip claiming the world’s smallest real-time PCR devic…
COMPANIES
CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA SKINCENTIAL SCIENCES, a company with an innovative line of cosmetic products marketed as a way to erase blemishes and soften skin, has caught the attention of beauty bloggers o…
Veritas launch $999 genome Cheaper genomics is here, and it comes with an app. This month Boston-based startup Veritas Genetics began taking orders for its myGenome service, a $999 genome sequence that delivers interpretation direct to users’ smartp…
Get to know 15 Awesome Biotechs in Paris Paris attracts millions of tourists to see some of the world’s most iconic monuments – the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre, Notre Dame… But it also attracts a lot of Biotechs. We selected 15 of the most successful a…
SOMETHING DIFFERENT
How to win friends and influence people The social network has turned itself into one of the world’s most influential technology giants, and wants to become ever more powerful A HUGE thumbs-up, Facebook’s “like” symbol, greets visitors at the entran…
The Abstractionist One unusually warm afternoon last April, Zaha Hadid, the Baghdad-born, London-based architect, was seated on a banquette in the Mercer, in SoHo, her preferred hotel in New York, eating a chicken panino. Bits of the sandwich were f…
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