The LavaAmp is a portable PCR thermocycler that has the potential to become the default garage biology (home biology, bioDIY, DIYbio) tool once it hits the market. Think of Apple II for personal computing or MakerBot for 3D printing.
The 1st LavaAmp...
Kaiser Permanente alongside with UCSF plans for genetic analyses of an unprecedented 100,000 older Californians, the Technology Review writes in Massive Gene Database Planned in California
The effort will make use of existing saliva samples taken from...
Sage Bionetworks is a not-for-profit organization developing an open-access “pre-competitive” platform for networked and annotated models of human disease. It’s a huge and unparalleled bioinformatics enterprise: starting with an anonymous $5 million...
“for the discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase” press release
The award goes to Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak.
The problem of telomere/telomerases is highlighting the double...
Big news at PLoS: today Mark Patterson announced on the PLoS blog that
“As part of our ongoing article-level metrics program, we’re delighted to announce that all seven PLoS journals will now provide online usage data for published articles”.
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