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23andMe and the FDA: what really drove them apart

Posted on December 7, 2013 by timbatchelder

What Really Drove 23andMe And The FDA Apart
BY ROBERT SAFIAN, fastcompany.com

Is getting a $99 DNA test really hazardous to your health? Our editor-in-chief decodes an innovation dustup.

When we put 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki on the cover of Fast Company’s November issue, we didn’t expect the FDA to yank the compan…

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Exclusive: What Really Drove 23andMe And The FDA Apart (fastcompany.com)
FDA tells 23andMe to halt sales of genetic test – USA TODAY (newestgadgetsinfo.com)
23andMe ordered to stop selling $99 genetic test (newscientist.com)

Coolest ideas in bio design

Posted on February 1, 2013 by timbatchelder

The 11 Coolest Ideas In Biodesign
By Shaunacy Ferro, popsci.com

William Myers’ Bio Design explores the intersection of design and biology.

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We can already store Shakespeare’s sonnets in DNA. What if we could use trees as city lights, or turn pigeon poop into natural street…

RT @PopSci: 11 crazy feats of bio-engineering, including jackets grown from bacteria (?) (!) http://flip.it/plTHS http://flip.it/IFPUr

Capture the future from the past…. (technologyfork12.wordpress.com)

Freakonomics radio: The real life of consultants

Posted on November 29, 2012 by timbatchelder

(via Freakonomics » I Consult, Therefore I Am: A New Freakonomics Radio Podcast)

A Freakonomics Radio Bleg: What’s Your Name? (freakonomics.com)
Freakonomics Radio: Parking Is Hell (transportationnation.org)
Superfreakonomics (kirkomi.wordpress.com)

DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive

Posted on August 20, 2012 by timbatchelder

English: DNA replication or DNA synthesis is t... — English: DNA replication or DNA synthesis is the process of copying a double-stranded DNA molecule. This process is paramount to all life as we know it. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

ScienceNow, wired.com

Researchers have stored an entire genetics textbook in less than a picogram of DNA, or one trillionth of a gram . It’s an advance that could revolutionize our ability to save data.

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DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive

DNA: The Ultimate Hard Drive (news.dice.com)
Every Shakespeare sonnet now right where you need it: DNA (dvice.com)
Data Storage in DNA Becomes a Reality (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
Shakespeare’s sonnets encoded in DNA (guardian.co.uk)
DNA Services of America Announces New Chief Scientific Officer (prweb.com)

Microsoft says social science will be the next frontier of science and technology

Posted on February 27, 2012 by timbatchelder

Microsoft in Cambridge — Microsoft in Cambridge (Photo credit: Rachel Ford James)

Microsoft Research New England head notes that social science will be the next frontier of science and technology.

Where creativity meets technology – Boston.com

A New Kind Of Social Science For The 21st Century (lookingbeyondborders.com)
What’s Soft about Social Science? (everydaysociologyblog.com)
Adventures in Ideas: Which Social Science Should Die? (freakonomics.com)
Social Science Notes (9gmes.wordpress.com)
Council to promote social sciences (nation.com.pk)
Humanities Aren’t Science? More’s the Pity (sandwalk.blogspot.com)
The social sciences edge in business (todayonline.com)
Some Interesting Links About Issues of Legitimacy of Social Science (for my benefit as well as yours) (contemplatingphronesis.wordpress.com)
“Computational Social Science: Making the Links” (cccblog.org)

Getting real about Enterprise 2.0

Posted on May 9, 2010 by timbatchelder

E L S U A ~ A KM Blog Thinking Outside The Inbox by Luis Suarez » Getting Real about Enterprise 2.0 by Oscar Berg and Henrik Gustafsson.

Its beginning to look a lot like Enterprise 2.0 (dealarchitect.typepad.com)
Research and Markets: Global Enterprise 2.0 Market 2012-2016 Report Features Players such as IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and Ektron Inc (virtual-strategy.com)
5 Lessons for Enterprise 2.0 Success from Digg, Reddit and Slashdot (isykes.wordpress.com)
The Rise of the Social CEO within Enterprise 2.0 (billives.typepad.com)
Enterprise 2.0: The Human Challenge (c21org.typepad.com)
Enterprise 2.0 Summit: Learning from Alcatel-Lucent, IBM, Yves Caseau, BASF & More “How People Matter” (c21org.typepad.com)
Maybe Enterprise 2.0 Is About the Technology (billives.typepad.com)
Building Enterprise 2.0: Benefits and Risks – exploreB2B (designingdesignthinkingdrivenoperations.wordpress.com)
Taking the Next Step: Going From a Grassroots Enterprise 2.0 Community to an Official One (isykes.wordpress.com)

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