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Tag Archives: Genetics
Artificial Life on the Horizon
Admit it: you wouldn’t mind winning a Nobel Prize. Well here’s a science project for you: reverse global warming, solve [...]
Posted in Genetics
Tagged artificial, artificial life, create life, Genetics, george church, synthetic, synthetic life, venter
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Google, Papa Brin Step In For 23andme
Both Google and Sergey Brin have made an investment in personal genetics company 23andme in a series B funding round. [...]
Posted in Genetics
Tagged 23andme, Genetics, genome, google, sequencing, sergey brin, snp, snps
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Another Step in Genetic Engineering: Glowing Primates
The primate family tree seems to have gotten a bit brighter lately. Earlier, Singularity Hub reported on Ruby Puppy, the [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health
Tagged genetic, genetic engineering, Genetics, marmoset, medicine, monkey
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Now Recruiting: The Personal Genome Project
Everybody has a database: staffers, bankers, law enforcers and now geneticists, too. The PGP is not a college fraternity (rush [...]
Posted in Genetics
Tagged church, genes, Genetics, genome, george church, personal genome project, pgp
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Genetically Engineered Puppies Glow In The Dark
Dog training is poised to become much more interesting. In addition to the usual tricks (sit, lay down, heel, look [...]
Viruses – Batteries Now Included
Microscopic workers of the world unite! There’s a trend floating around laboratories: designing tiny mechanisms that can build other devices [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health
Tagged battery, genes, Genetics, virus, virus battery
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Exponential Trends – What Are Your Favorites?
Over at Hacker News there was a discussion about our ebay genome story that I thought was cool enough to [...]
Bid To Have Your Whole Genome Sequenced On Ebay
Update: bidding seems to have ended at about 5pm EST today Genome sequencing company Knome, in partnership with the Xprize [...]
Who is DIYbio.org?
If you’re like me, Jurassic Park taught you two valuable lessons: genetic engineering has to be dangerous, and the coolest [...]
Do It Yourself Biohacking
Ever wanted to play with your own genome? When you read about the latest genetic engineering tools do your fingers [...]
Posted in AI, Genetics
Tagged biohackers, biohacking, diy bio, genetic engineering, Genetics
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Designer Babies – Like It Or Not, Here They Come
Long before Watson and Crick famously uncovered the structure of DNA in 1953, people envisioned with both horror and hope [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health
Tagged designer babies, designer baby, Genetics
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Complete Genomics Stuns Genomics Community, Confirms Industry Shattering Capability
Daniel MacArthur at Genetic Future has just completed his post covering the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) conference, where [...]
Genetic Mutation Found in 1% of Population Almost Guarantees Onset of Heart Disease
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute today published a press release presenting the discovery of a gene mutation in roughly 1% [...]
Posted in Genetics, Longevity And Health
Tagged gene, Genetics, heart disease, mutation, mybpc3
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Archon X Prize Offers $10 million to Revolutionize Gene Sequencing
Many people have heard of the original X Prize, which was a $10 million prize given to the first company [...]
deCODEme video tour
deCODEme offers an excellent video tour on their website that demonstrates what they can do with your dna. This video [...]
Personal Genome Project (PGP) Highlighted by Wired
Wired came out with a pretty nice article on the Personal Genome Project (PGP) with a focus on the project’s [...]
Living past 100 years with anti-aging genes
Two separate projects are both analyzing the genes of healthy, old (90 or even 100 years) people to see if [...]
Heliscope builds world’s fastest DNA sequencer
The Short: Technology Review reports that for just $1,350,000 USD you can have have the worlds fastest commercially available DNA [...]
The revolution in mass market DNA analysis is happening…
I just read the following post from the 23andMe company blog. The most interesting revelation here is the demonstration of [...]