Friday, June 24, 2016

Weekly Links June 24 , 2016



DISRUPTION, REVOLUTION
Scientists Announce HGP-Write, Project to Synthesize the Human Genome Scientists on Thursday formally announced the start of a 10-year project aimed at vastly improving the ability to chemically manufacture DNA, with one of the goals being to synthe…
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Plan to Fabricate a Genome Raises Questions on Designer Humans A proposal by a group of scientists and businesspeople to synthesize a human genome from scratch is attracting sharp criticism for dodging the big ethical questions such a step raises.
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TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
Get that Genotyping PCR to Work EVERY TIME Say you just joined a lab and have been assigned your very own project to work on. As part of your new responsibilities, you have to breed and maintain the mutant (or transgenic) mouse line which you will b…
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Cell Culture is No Longer Flat: Three Dimensional Cell Culture Three dimensional cell culture mimics the extracellular matrix (ECM) that offers the structure and support for cells in vivo, thus creating the complex architecture and network required …
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COMPANIES
Not So Verily The folks at Stat clearly have some good sources inside Google’s Verily startup. They ran a story back in March about problems with the CEO (blogged about here), and now they’re back with more opinion from within.
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Exit Interview: Lita Nelsen on MIT Tech Transfer, Startups & Culture MIT’s approach to nurturing entrepreneurship has changed a lot over the past 50 years.
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Surprisingly Simple Ways You Can Trick Your Brain Into Focusing What separates strategic, visionary thinkers from the rest of us? And why do we tend to worry about our ability to remember names—or where our keys are—rather than loss of cognitive mem…
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Monday, June 20, 2016

Weekly Links June 20 , 2016



“MUST READ”
The Parasite Underground When Vik was in his late 20s, blood started appearing in his stool. He found himself rushing to the bathroom as many as nine times a day, and he quit his job at a software company. He received a diagnosis of severe ulcerativ…
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DISRUPTION, REVOLUTION
Scientists Hope to Cultivate an Immune System for Crops The world’s crops face a vast army of enemies, from fungi to bacteria to parasitic animals. Farmers have deployed pesticides to protect their plants, but diseases continue to ruin a sizable por…
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Scientists Find Form of Crispr Gene Editing With New Capabilities Just a few years ago, Crispr was a cipher — something that sounded to most ears like a device for keeping lettuce fresh. Today, Crispr-Cas9 is widely known as a powerful way to edit g…
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Emmanuelle Charpentier’s Still-Busy Life After Crispr Emmanuelle Charpentier — one of three scientists credited with starting the gene editing revolution — willingly turned her life over to science.
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TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
Cloning Methods: 5 Different Ways to Assemble Over the past few decades molecular biologists have developed procedures to simplify and standardize cloning processes, allowing vast arrays of artificial DNA structures to be more easily assembled. Are …
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    • Sometimes it seems easier to hire a detective than to order a specific antibody,” concludes an overview of antibody portals5.
HEALTH/MEDECINE
‘Liquid’ Cancer Test Offers Hope for Alternative to Painful Biopsies CHICAGO — A blood test to detect cancer mutations produced results that generally agree with those of an invasive tumor biopsy, researchers reported, heralding a time when diagnosi…
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COMPANIES
Investors Look to Improving Response Time of Global Life Science Reagents Market against Increased Disease Prevalence A new research report pegs the global life science reagents market at US$25.73 bn in 2019. The market will be able to achieve this …
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SciQuest Set to go Private in $509M Deal with Accel-KKR Software firm SciQuest is set to go private again in a cash deal that values the company at about $509 million. Private equity firm Accel-KKR is paying $17.75 per share to acquire all of the co…
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT
Think millennials have it tough? For 'Generation K', life is even harsher After our in-depth investigation of the issues faced by young adults, Noreena Hertz takes a look at the lives of today’s teenagers, after interviewing 2,000 of them in the pas…
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Friday, June 3, 2016

Weekly Links June 3rd, 2016



“MUST READ”
Eske Willerslev Is Rewriting History With DNA COPENHAGEN — As a boy growing up in Denmark, Eske Willerslev could not wait to leave Gentofte, his suburban hometown. As soon as he was old enough, he would strike out for the Arctic wilderness. His twin…
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TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
The Key to Unlocking DNA from FFPE Tissues Formalin fixed paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissues are valuable samples that typically come from human specimens collected for examination of the histology of biopsies for the detection of cancer. But each sam…
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Photonic PCR: When Lightening Strikes Your DNA Before I get into today’s topic, please allow me to digress a bit and start with a few sentences that sum up the polymerase chain reaction (PCR); the grand-daddy of molecular biology.
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HEALTH/MEDECINE
Biotech startup seeks brain drugs — in the gut Kallyope launched Wednesday focusing on the brain-gut microbiome interaction. Kallyope, which launched Wednesday with $44 million in financing, seeks to explore the interaction between the brain and the…
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Interviewing the Founder of the World #1 Microbiome Investment fund Isabelle De Cremoux is the CEO and President of French VC fund Seventure Partners, famous for having opened Health for Life Capital, a €160M fund dedicated to the Microbiome.
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COMPANIES
Biotech investment panorama in Chile The “Chilecon Valley” bubble is a weird one. Four years ago, people wrinkled their nose at you when you called yourself an entrepreneur. Today, they treat you like a rockstar and maybe even throw money at your fa…
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Edico Genome Strengthens Intellectual Property Position for DRAGEN Bio-IT Processor SAN DIEGO,  — Edico Genome, creator of the world’s first bio-IT processor designed to analyze next-generation sequencing (NGS) data, today announced a third, foundat…
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SOMETHING DIFFERENT
The Curse of Culture – Stratechery by Ben Thompson One of the seminal books on culture is Edgar Schein’s Organizational Culture and Leadership. Schein writes in the introduction:
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Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog, the book that changed the world Stewart Brand was at the heart of 60s counterculture and is now widely revered as the tech visionary whose book anticipated the web.
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