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The year is 2030. In a
high-security containment lab, scientists gathered around a towering machine,
eagerly awaiting the first look at a newly discovered bacterium on Mars. via
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When Martin Cohn passed
through airport security at Ronald Reagan Airport, he figured that he’d
probably get some questions about the 3-D-printed model of a mouse penis in his
bag. via Pocket
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The average marketing campaign
for Life Science products achieves a lead to customer conversion rate of around
10-20% with similarly low conversion rates at each stage along the customer
purchase journey. There is an enormous amount of attrition alo…
DISRUPTION,
REVOLUTION
AdvertisementThe Talent
ScoutsXavier Niel“What’s important is that we create successes. The risk is
that in a few years, that doesn’t happen. But that risk is really null.”Roxanne
Varza“When people talk about France, they don’t see it as a small-lea…
TOOLS/TECHNIQUES
CRISPR and the CRISPR
Associated system (Cas) are powerful gene editing technologies. Originally
identified and characterized in bacteria, the endogenous CRISPR systems act as
an RNA-based defense mechanism against invading phage DNA. via Pocket
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CRISPR is a new area of
biomedical science that enables gene editing and could be the key to eventually
curing diseases like autism or cancer. via Pocket
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In my bit on "I'm not
dead yet" technologies recently, I included large scale Sanger sequencing.
That reflects to a large degree my personal experiences and biases. via Pocket
HEALTH/MEDECINE
s nutrition debates raged in
the 1960s, prominent Harvard nutritionists published two reviews in a top
medical journal downplaying the role of sugar in coronary heart disease. via
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This story is part of an
ongoing series on A.I. in healthcare. A companion piece today looks at the
question of when A.I. might replace doctors. Artificial intelligence has a
long road ahead to reach the front lines of healthcare—but it’s coming. vi…
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Biology has emerged as one of
the most important technology platforms of the 21st century. With the arrival
of the gene-editing technology Crispr, biology will soon converge with everyday
medicine, big agriculture, and artificial intelligence to inf…
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COMPANIES
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Jeff Immelt has struggled to
please Wall Street during his nearly 16 years as General Electric’s chief
executive. The question now is whether his successor, John Flannery, can
deliver on Immelt’s vision while also blazing new trails and reinvigorati…
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GE Chairman and CEO Jeff
Immelt announced today the appointment of Kieran Murphy as president and CEO of
GE Healthcare, effective immediately. Murphy is currently president and CEO of
GE Healthcare Life Sciences. Murphy succeeds John Flannery who ha…
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San Diego’s Scientist.com set
out in 2006 to disrupt part of the pharmaceutical business by providing an
Amazon-like approach to the business of hiring contract research organizations
(CROs). via Pocket
SOMETHING
DIFFERENT
Editor’s Note: On June 16,
2017, Whole Foods agreed to sell itself to Amazon for $13.7 billion. This is
the exclusive story that led up to that momentous decision for the Austin-based
grocery giant. via Pocket
Simone Veil, an Auschwitz
survivor who as health minister of France championed the 1975 law that
legalized abortion in that country, and who was the first woman to be chosen
president of the European Parliament, died on Friday in Paris. She was 89. …
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Biotechnology and the rise of
AI could one day divide humankind into a small class of superhumans and a huge
underclass of ‘useless’ people. Once the masses lose their economic and
political power, inequality levels can spiral alarmingly via Pocket
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