DISRUPTION, REVOLUTION
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- Elon Musk is famous for his futuristic gambles, but Silicon Valley’s latest rush to embrace artificial intelligence scares him. And he thinks you should be frightened too. Inside his efforts to influence the rapidly advancing field and its proponents, and to save humanity from machine-learning overlords.
The advent of so-called next
generation sequencers, particularly those from Illumina, have brought the price
of sequence data down dramatically. via Pocket
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HEALTH/MEDECINE
As biological research races
forward, ethical quandaries are piling up. In a report published Tuesday in the
journal eLife, researchers at Harvard Medical School said it was time to ponder
a startling new prospect: synthetic embryos. via Pocket
COMPANIES
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- Jonathan Milner is a rockstar biotech entrepreneur and founder of Abcam. He is still on the board of his baby Abcam, while investing in many young startups, nurturing the British biotech ecosystem and taking part in philanthropy. Here’s my chat with him on all these topics.
- Though the startup went through the usual ups and downs of product development, sales and financing, Milner and David Cleevely, another famous entrepreneur from Cambridge, have turned it into a €2B company, listed on the London Stock Exchange and with almost 1000 employees.
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- Troisième épisode spécial focus de Biologie Tout Compris !
- Steve Blank The No Excuses Culture
Getting ready for our next
semester’s class, I asked my Teaching Assistant why I hadn’t seen the posters
for our new class around campus. Hearing the litany of excuses that followed
–“It was raining.” (The posters go inside the building.) “We still …
If you don’t know where you’re
going, how will you know when you get there? But he was getting uneasy that as
his headcount was growing the productivity of his marketing department
seemed to be rapidly declining. via Pocket
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