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The soul of academic science
is being destroyed, one patent at a time. via Pocket
DISRUPTION,
REVOLUTION
THE WORLD’S MOST EXTREME
physical exam starts in the world’s plushest exam room, complete with a couch,
a private bathroom and a teeming fruit plate. It will be my home for an entire
day. First come the blood tests, vial after vial. via Pocket
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- This video is presented by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it features the president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and MIT's James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award winner for 2016-2017, Professor Eric Lander, a geneticist, molecular biologist, and mathematician. He is known for playing a major role in sequencing the human genome.
Europe has a lot
of successful Biotech companies, but which of those are worth a
billion euros or more? I did a previous version of this article last year and
now I explore how these have evolved. Just 9 European Biotech companies
(private and publ…
Soon scientists will be able
to perform efficient DNA analysis right at their bench. Promega Corporation has
announced the development of a benchtop capillary electrophoresis (CE) instrument
in collaboration with Hitachi High-Technologies Corporatio…
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It is certainly possible that,
as per recent speculation, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to run for
President. It is also possible that Facebook is on the verge of failing “just
like MySpace”. And while I’m here, it’s possible that UFOs e…
Famine, plague, and war. These
have been the three scourges of human history. But today, people in most
countries are more likely to die from eating too much rather than too little,
more likely to die of old age than a great plague, and more likely …
In 1975, researchers at
Stanford invited a group of undergraduates to take part in a study about
suicide. They were presented with pairs of suicide notes. In each pair, one
note had been composed by a random individual, the other by a person who had…
