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LavaAmp: cheapest pocket PCR thermocycler dreamed for DIY biologists 1 Nov 2009 | 01:55 pm
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 compu...
Aging-centric genetic health database in California: 100k people, ~65yrs, 700k SNPs, telomeres too 21 Oct 2009 | 08:56 pm
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...
Sage Bionetworks Update: building an OA standard for human disease biology 8 Oct 2009 | 09:47 pm
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 ...
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009: telomere/telomerase, Blackburn, Greider, Szostak 5 Oct 2009 | 10:00 pm
“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 ...
Top 10 PLoS Articles based on online usage 17 Sep 2009 | 03:05 pm
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...
Mapping neurons without glial cells ~ SNP genotyping w/o whole sequencing? 3 May 2009 | 09:26 pm
Nature’s Journal Club column is usually a good & always a short read providing exciting angles on scientific topics/papers from good researchers. Recently ‘neuroscientist’ Dave Featherstone argued for...
Visualize 23andMe haplogroup defining SNPs with Mitowheel! 8 Apr 2009 | 04:40 am
Last Friday 23andMe came up with Haplogroup Tree Mutation Mapper which is the first experimental feature that can be instantly tested by biogeek customers (a large portion of the company’s customer b...
Bright cells, big city: Cellular images hit Broadway 11 Mar 2009 | 07:55 am
Surprise email from Conor McKechnie, GE Healthcare proving the aesthetics of science and the value of blogging: A while (!) back you posted an inspiring piece linking to Harvard’s BioVisions inner li...
Why the Dyna-Vision G1 Android Telemedicine App can only be used by licensed physicians??? 4 Mar 2009 | 06:38 am
Let us assume that you are a technological early adopter, a maker, a hacker, a geek. Your software/hardware skills and experiences are much better than the bulk of licensed physicians. You also have a...
Many Eyes Visualizations: FDA Application Approvals 2000-2008 28 Feb 2009 | 09:51 pm
Take a look at the FDA Application Approvals 2000-2008 visualization (created by user mktlgcs) over at IBM’s Many Eyes to get an aerial view on the US. pharmaceutical industry.
