Monday, July 10, 2017

Weekly Links July 10th, 2017




“MUST READ”
A Boston-based DNA sequencing company is offering to decode the complete genomes of newborns in China, leading some to ask how much parents should know about their children’s genes at birth. via Pocket
Eric J. Topol, MD: Hello. This is Eric Topol, editor-in-chief of Medscape. I am delighted to welcome Feng Zhang, who is with us today to discuss his extraordinary work in CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats). via Pocket
DISRUPTION, REVOLUTION
What if an app could replace a pill? That’s the big question behind an emerging trend known as “digital therapeutics.” The idea: software that can improve a person’s health as much as a drug can, but without the same cost and side-effects. via Pocket
The history of computers is often told as a history of objects, from the abacus to the Babbage engine up through the code-breaking machines of World War II. via Pocket
TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
Craig Venter thinks that sending living organisms to other galaxies on spaceships is "definitely" science fiction. It's much more realistic, he thinks, to print them on-site using digital representations of their genome. He calls this "biological te…
PCR was actually one of the first lab techniques I learned as an undergrad. Despite being sometimes labeled as a pretty basic lab skill, PCR doesn’t always work as expected. via Pocket
In this article, I will introduce you to the world of fluorescent western blotting. Firstly, we’ll find out how it compares to chemiluminescent western blotting. Then, we will learn how infrared fluorescent western blotting can give you truly quanti…
A team of scientists from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, the Institute for Medical Engineering & Science at MIT, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Unive…
HEALTH/MEDECINE
Compare the genomes of enough people with and without a disease, and genetic variants linked to the malady should pop out. via Pocket
Rumors are flying that Apple is developing some kind of wearable that would continuously track the user’s blood sugar without breaking their skin. For people with diabetes, this would be a huge improvement over the somewhat invasive or downright pai…
Editor's Note: Pardis Sabeti, MD, DPhil, is a member of the Broad Institute of Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a professor at the Center for Systems Biology and the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Ha…

COMPANIES
Integrated DNA Technologies (IDT) today announced a broad partnership with Illumina, Inc. to provide improved library preparation multiplexing and target enrichment solutions for the next generation sequencing (NGS) market. via Pocket
I co-founded a software startup in December. Each month, I send out an update to our investors to keep them updated on our progress. But the past month was a bit different — our industry (retail) is going through a transformation. via Pocket
SOMETHING DIFFERENT
SAN FRANCISCO — When John Battelle’s teenage son broke his leg at a suburban soccer game, naturally the first call his parents made was to 911. The second was to Dr. Jordan Shlain, the concierge doctor here who treats Mr. Battelle and his family. vi…
Half a century ago, in the great hippie year of 1967, an acclaimed young American science fiction writer, Roger Zelazny, published his third novel. In many ways, Lord of Light was of its time, shaggy with imported Hindu mythology and cosmic dialogue…

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