It’s the filtering, stupid
I’ve been struggling for a while around a very big concept – how to bring scientific publishing to the modern web world of social, collaborative cre...
Category: Innovation
A wander through personal genomics
So, I’ve been talking about trends in biology that I think are significant (maybe because I’ve only started following biology again in the past year...
Potential of immune system reboot?
This is cool (below). Gene therapy combined with a re-install of the immune system. I am writing a story where the main character basically gets an immune syste...
“Taste good, sequence it” and “Look cute, sequence it.”
When I first started working in science, sequencing was just beginning to be a ‘kit’ science, where anyone could buy a kit and sequence. It was long...
Random walks through synthetic biology
Synthetic biology is the design and building of novel organisms or biological systems. Sounds amazing, but we have been doing it to some degree for millenia, th...
Three trends for the future of biology
A chance encounter, about a year ago, with some interesting minds in the field of biomedical publishing had me going back to my roots: biology. I’ve been ...
Gah. Why are folks trying to be digital in an analog world?
Call me old-fashioned, but I want some analog-computing being done with biological systems. I’m never comfortable with digital thinking with biological ma...
Swimming the sea of knowledge (the Concept Web?)
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about how to find, navigate, recombine, and contribute to … what’s out there, though mostly focused ...
Live via Mobile is the new Live
How Long Is Now?Originally uploaded by Jofus | JoeTheDough When I was a kid, it was a thrill to watch sports live. Up in one corner, there’d bit a big fla...
Does Anyone Use Phone Booths Anymore?
A long forgotten phoneboothOriginally uploaded by schickr PhoneBoy asks this question (link below). Indeed, I think the folks who have been ramping down their p...