Monday, July 3, 2017

Weekly Links July 3rd, 2017




“MUST READ”
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 Pocket
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
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
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
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 Pocket
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…
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…


COMPANIES
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…
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…
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. …
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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