“MUST READ”
Same but Different On October 6, 1942, my
mother was born twice in Delhi. Bulu, her identical twin, came first, placid
and beautiful. My mother, Tulu, emerged several minutes later, squirming and squalling.
The New Yorker screws up big time with science:
researchers criticize the Mukherjee piece on epigenetics Abstract: This is a
two part-post about a science piece on gene regulation that just
appeared in the New Yorker. Today I give quotes from scient…
Researchers criticize the Mukherjee piece on
epigenetics: Part 2 Trigger warning: Long science post!
Right But Wrong In its May 2 issue, The New
Yorker magazine published a report titled “Same But Different,” with the
subhead: “How epigenetics can blur the line between nature and nurture.
DISRUPTION,
REVOLUTION
How Craig Venter is fighting ageing with genome
sequencing This article was first published in the May 2016 issue of WIRED
magazine. Be the first to read WIRED's articles in print before they're posted
online, and get your hands on loads of addition…
TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
Want NGS Success? Consider These Three Factors
– Bitesize Bio NGS is still something a little scary for most operators. Mainly
because of the price, which can make the pipette, in the hand of the best of
us, shake a little with fear.
HEALTH/MEDECINE
When Do You Give Up on Treating a Child With
Cancer? When Esther and Dan Levy’s son Andrew was 14 months old, he received a
diagnosis of a kind of leukemia so rare that their medical team said getting it
was like being bitten by a shark and struck b…
COMPANIES
The Secret Culprit in the Theranos Mess Over
the past few years, when media outlets reached out to Theranos about whether
its wunderkind founder, Elizabeth Holmes, would have time to sit for an
interview, her P.R. team generally responded with two q…
SOMETHING
DIFFERENT
Cisco’s CEO on Staying Ahead of Technology
Shifts Our success at Cisco has been defined by how we anticipate, capture, and
lead through market transitions. Over the years, I’ve watched iconic companies
disappear—Compaq, Sun Microsystems, Wang, Digit…
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