Accord Aims to Create Global Trove of Genetic Data
Phil Noble/Reuters
By GINA KOLATA
Published: June 5, 2013
More than 70 medical, research and advocacy organizations active in 41 countries and including the National Institutes of Health announced Wednesday that they have agreed to create an organized way to share genetic and clinical information. ….
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NYT – Accord Aims to Create Global Trove of Genetic Data
June 8, 2013Is This Virtual Worm the First Sign of the Singularity? – Alexis C. Madrigal – The Atlantic
May 18, 2013http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/05/is-this-virtual-worm-the-first-sign-of-the-singularity/275715/
from worm genomics to connectomics
Language Log » Ultraconserved words? Really??
May 13, 2013Interesting comparing to genomic ultraconserved elements MT @paulbloomatyale: 23 “ultraconserved” words http://bit.ly/10DU4KX http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=4612
Flesh-Eating Plant Cleaned Junk From Its Minimalist Genome – Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science
May 13, 2013Privacy protections: The genome hacker : Nature News & Comment
May 13, 2013Magdalena Skipper @Magda_Skipper5m
Out last Thursday, a News Feature – Privacy protections: The genome hacker @NatureNews @erlichya
http://www.nature.com/news/privacy-protections-the-genome-hacker-1.12940
BBC News: Glowing plant gets funds green light
May 7, 2013Glowing plant gets funds green light
A DIY project to create a glowing plant has proved a big hit on the crowdfunding site Kickstarter.
Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22433866
How Humans Will Evolve on Multigenerational Space Exploration Missions: Scientific American
May 6, 2013provocative ideas about evolution in a space capsule and on mars
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-humans-will-evolve-multi-generational-space-exploration-missions
The Brain – Our Food-Traffic Controller – NYTimes.com
May 5, 2013What sugar does to brains
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/28/opinion/sunday/the-brain-our-food-traffic-controller.html
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