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George Church has a wild idea
to upend evolution. Here’s your guide Harvard biologist George Church burst
into the headlines (yet again) last week when he helped organize a closed-door
meeting of scores of top scientists to discuss accelerating effo…
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DISRUPTION,
REVOLUTION
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- The report also says that new techniques, like a way to make small genetic changes in plants using genome-editing, are blurring the distinction between genetic engineering and conventional plant breeding, making the existing regulatory system untenable. It calls for a new system that pays more attention to the attributes of the crop, as opposed to the way in which it was created.
Nature Reviews Genetics
Volume: 17, Pages: 333–351 Year published: (2016) DOI: doi:10.1038/nrg.2016.
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HEALTH/MEDECINE
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google
médecine
- L'histoire des relations (et des ambitions) de Google avec la médecine et la génomique est déjà ancienne. Je vous l'ai racontée au cours de différents billets.
- The Plan to Avert Our Post-Antibiotic Apocalypse - The Atlantic
The Plan to Avert Our
Post-Antibiotic Apocalypse A new report estimates that by 2050, drug-resistant
infections will kill one person every three seconds, unless the world’s
governments take drastic steps now. Under instructions from U.K.
COMPANIES
Bayer offers Big Buy out for
the infamous Monsanto. Shareholders are not pleased… Yes, everyone is talking
about how Germany’s Pharma giant Bayer has made a $62 billion offer for
the infamous chemicals conglomerate Monsanto. And not many like it.
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SOMETHING
DIFFERENT
o Lab-equipment company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. TMO
0.62
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on Friday said it reached a deal to acquire
microscope-technology maker FEI Co. for $4.2 billion in cash.
The
purchase price, at $107.50 a share, represents a 14% premium to FEI’s closing
price on Thursday. The maker of high-end electron microscopes will join Thermo
Fisher’s analytical instruments segment.
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- The same design qualities that make an app enthralling, he said, may also make it difficult for people to put down. And the more popular such services become, the more appeal they hold for users — a phenomenon known as the network effect.
- Soon We Won’t Program Computers. We’ll Train Them Like Dogs | WIRED
Soon We Won’t Program
Computers. We’ll Train Them Like Dogs Before the invention of the computer,
most experimental psychologists thought the brain was an unknowable black box.
You could analyze a subject’s behavior—ring bell, dog salivates—but thou…
