The December issue of Scientific American finishes its two-part article about parts of the genome that have definite influences on how genes are expressed and how health may be affected as a consequence. Last month’s episode explained why some stretches of DNA thought to be “junk”—DNA accumulated down through evolution but having no contemporary impact [...]
I’ve posted observations before that the trend in life science is toward multi-disciplinary projects combining scientists from many areas of expertise and a heck of a lot of equipment. I’ve even suggested that the ACS follow that trend.
I recant.
I recently interviewed one of the Society’s extramural grant recipients, Dr. Kathleen Collins, and she totally convinced [...]
A research team has made the first protein designed from scratch that works the way they predicted and is not found in nature. For proteins, how they fold and assume particular shapes is critical. Protein function in living things depends greatly on exactly how the structure shapes up. The ability to start from a desired [...]
You may need to put aside your political preferences for a moment to read this worthwhile article from Wired about how charities are picking up on the grass-roots fund raising success of Moveon.org and the Howard Dean campaign to increase success in online fundraising.
Many charities now focus on building relationships with their supporters. They’re using [...]
You might want to check-out this “New” feature at WebMD, an online weight-loss clinic.
In quick succession I got a couple of glimpses of media’s current attention to the obesity problem. While channel surfing last night I came upon “CNN Presents,” a weekly, single-topic show. They did a pretty informative hour about obesity with interviews with experts and with weight-loss successes and failures.
Then this morning while getting ready for [...]
http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/auto/epaper/editions/friday/editorial_f3db7c9007af60a600ae.html
This may be the year of the blog.
In case you’ve been on a mission in deep space for the past year or two, the word blog is short for Web log. Web logs morphed into personal journals, or online diaries, sometime around 1997 and acquired the abbreviated name “blogs.” Blogs consist of written journal entries [...]
A couple of evenings ago I attended a hors d’oeuvres and wine reception for BayBio, a San Francisco Bay Area biotechnology promotion organization. Since biotech is well established around here it’s a little hard to generate a lot of gravity to this sort of thing. The people attending tended to be the ancillary biotech community: [...]
ScienceDaily News Release: New Technology Will Speed Genome Sequencing
And the wheel goes ’round–smaller, faster, cheaper, smaller, faster, cheaper… The consequence is that these technologies become more commonplace…and disruptive to the way things used to be done.
This social software is touchy stuff. It seems that the implicit agreement for these ephemeral processes is: “Hey, don’t run your agenda on me!”
