“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…
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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