DISRUPTION, REVOLUTION
The adoption of genetic services is key to our
ability to provide personalized medicine in the future. The goal is to better
diagnose diseases, predict their outcome, and choose the best possible care
option for a patient. We still have a long way t…
We have come a long way since next-generation
sequencing (NGS) evolved as a set of technologies in the 1970s. The higher
throughput and rapid reduction of costs associated with NGS have lead to the
accelerated adoption of clinical testing that we ar…
TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
An anti-cancer drug or antibody drug conjugate
screening assay is the first step to establish the utility of a drug candidate
in killing cancer cells. Nevertheless, these assays are time consuming and
tedious. via Pocket
Humans have about 25,000 genes. About 20,000 of
these genes are protein-coding genes.1 That means, of course, that humans make
at least 20,000 proteins. Not all of them are different since the number of
protein-coding genes includes many duplicated …
HEALTH/MEDECINE
That unusual inheritance makes the Y relatively
easy to study. If a man acquires a new mutation on a Y chromosome, all his male
descendants will inherit it. They can quickly identify themselves as cousins by
the mutations that they share. It turns o…
BETHESDA, Md. — The young surgeon was
mystified. A fist-size tumor had been removed from the stomach of his patient
12 years earlier, but his doctors had not been able to cut out many smaller
growths in his liver. via Pocket
COMPANIES
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- Philippe highlighted that “Europe is good at starting companies, but not at making them world leaders“. Fast-growing tech companies, including biotech, are the fuel of economic growth: “Biotech is open to anyone that has anything interesting to say“. He reckons that Europe will have to contend in the next 20-30 years with China, which is emerging as the next big player.
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- With not only jobs but entire industries disappearing, we must help people to retrain for a new world and support them financially while they do so. If communities and economies cannot cope with current levels of migration, we must do more to encourage global development, as that is the only way that the migratory millions will be persuaded to seek their future at home
We can do this, I am an
enormous optimist for my species; but it will require the elites, from London
to Harvard, from Cambridge to Hollywood, to learn the lessons of the past year.
To learn above all a measure of humility.
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- Station F (formerly known as la Halle Freyssinet) is quite an ambitious project and is bound to change the face of the tech ecosystem in Paris. Financed by Xavier Niel and directed by Roxanne Varza, Station F is going be the world’s biggest startup campus with companies like Facebook and TechShop opening offices there
“We’re talking about a startup
campus because we’re actually very similar to a university campus,” Varza said.
“We’re expecting about one thousand startups in this space.”
