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Today's Debate: Are genetic tests a threat?

The start-up 23andme, whose best-known board member is Esther Dyson (right, from their web site), has an interesting goal. They want your genome. The company wants to build a database of genomes and offer "private, secured" access to it. Jesse Reynolds of the Center for Genetics and Society writes...

Tags: Genome, Esther Dyson, Biotechnology, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2007-10-02

Esther Dyson is posting her genome on the Web; Will you follow?

Esther Dyson is posting her genome on the Web; Will you follow?Health Insurance was soon after unavailable for heryeah great way to market a bad idea

Tags: Biotechnology, Channel management, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, genome, Esther Dyson, Web

Discussion threads 2007-07-25

Esther Dyson is posting her genome on the Web; Will you follow?

In a Wall Street Journal editorial Esther Dyson outlines how she will post her genome, medical history and health questionnaire for the world to see on the Web. Will you follow?Dyson, an investor in genome information startup 23andMe, is participating in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome project. In the...

Tags: General, Web Technology

Blog posts 2007-07-25

Additional Resources

2009 the year for predictive health start-ups

2009 the year for predictive health start-upsPredictive MedicineYou missed www.knome.com which is performing private whole genome sequencing and analysis. There is a story about them called "The Burden of Knowing" at: http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/the_burden_of_knowing/page1RE: 2009 the year for predictive health start-upsAs we are living longer and thus finding ourselves more and...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, health care, health start-up, predictive health start-up

Discussion threads 2009-01-05

Pandora Radio 1.2.1 (Mobile)

With Pandora you can explore this vast trove of music to your heart's content. Just drop the name of one of your favorite songs or artists into Pandora and let the Genome Project go. It will quickly scan its entire world of analyzed music, almost a century of popular recordings...

Tags: Song, Mobile, Apple iTunes, Pandora Media, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics

Software downloads 2008-12-26

News to know: Layoffs at AT&T, Adobe, Real; AMD warns; $99 iPhone

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: AT&T cuts 12,000 jobs, will cut capital spending Jason D. O'Grady: Adobe lays off 600; skips Macworld Expo Sam Diaz: Next up for layoffs:...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Layoff, Larry Dignan, AT&T Corp., Health Care, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-05

Vintage gadgets on display in NYC

From the Blickensderfer Portable Typewriter to the Apple Tablet Prototype and every Dyson G-Force Vacuum and Polaroid Land Camera in between, the temporary Gizmodo gallery installation at Reed Annex in New York was the place to see vintage gadget milestones alongside the newest technology of today. by Andrew Nusca

Tags: product photos, Gizmodo, gallery, vintage, gadgets, New York, event photos, Apple, Andrew Nusca

Image galleries 2008-12-04

Vintage gadgets on display in NYC

From the Blickensderfer Portable Typewriter to the Apple Tablet Prototype and every Dyson G-Force Vacuum and Polaroid Land Camera in between, the temporary Gizmodo gallery installation at the Reed Annex in New York was the place to see vintage gadget milestones alongside the newest technology of today. I took...

Tags: Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-04

Amazon puts human genome, other data sets in the cloud

Amazon Web Services AWS on Thursday said it will publish data sets such as the Human Genome, U.S. Census and labor statistics to its cloud to make the information easier to access for researchers. For starters, Amazon will publish various U.S. Census databases from the U.S. Census...

Tags: Genome, Amazon.com Inc., Data Set, Storage, Hardware, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-12-04

10 candidates who could become Obama's CTO

10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOHow about John McCain?:-)RE: 10 candidates who could become Obama's CTOPersonally, I think Gates would be the best choice. He is a visionary. Had his vision years ago, managed to podge together ideas and technology from other sources, and create the Windows empire.The only...

Tags: Government, Vertical industries, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, Obama

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Computers checking mathematical proofs?

Computer-assisted of mathematical proofs are not new. For example, computers were used to confirm the so-called 'four color theorem.' In a short release, 'Proof by computer,' the American Mathematical Society AMS reports it has published a special issue of one its journals dedicated to computer-aided proofs. 'The four Notices articles...

Tags: Proof, Computer, Productivity, Roland Piquepaille, Mathematician

Blog posts 2008-11-08

Pandora Widget 1.0.4 (Mac)

You might not have heard of Pandora, a personalized streaming music service. The cool thing about Pandora, besides the fact that it's free, is that its music recommendations are based on actual musical analysis (e.g. "vocal harmony, mild rhythmic syncopation, acoustic rhythm piano, major key tonality"), not just artist and...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Dashboard, Music

Software downloads 2008-11-01

National Epilepsy Research Initiative Built in 12 Months With Web-Based Technology

Epilepsy is among the most common neurological disorders in the world. In an effort to harness progress made in mapping the human genome, a team of scientists in epilepsy centers across the United States received a grant to study the complex genetic factors underlying some common forms of epilepsy. To...

Tags: Web, Team, Microsoft Corp., Epilepsy, Team Management, Biotechnology, Channel Management, Management, Marketing

Case studies 2008-10-08

Video: The week in Green tech

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., Steve Jurvetson of Draper Fisher Jurvetson describes the acceleration of computer and genetic technology through Moore's law, and then outlines nature-inspired methods for building nanotech. He also explains why decoding DNA from the ocean is important to green tech's future. ...

Tags: Biofuel, Green Technology, Video, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-19

Biotech for food, fuel

At the AlwaysOn GoingGreen conference in Sausalito, Calif., J. Craig Venter says going from food to fuel--corn to ethanol--is taking resources in the wrong direction. He discusses oil palm and the jatropha genome as future fuel possibilities, and talks about algae as a way to convert carbon back into a...

Tags: Food & Beverage, Biotechnology, Manufacturing, green, bioengineering, oil, food, algae, carbon, energy, crops, chemicals

Videos 2008-09-18

A new method to study origin of life

A new method to study origin of lifeStart from the other endStart with a conclusion, then only accept/invent things that support that conclusion. The kool-aid is so much smoother that way. ;)Phylogenetic algorhythmsAn evaluation of the worth of the methodology should start with examining how the analysis is accomplished.You may...

Tags: Biotechnology, kool-Aid, Darwin

Discussion threads 2008-09-03

GWT fireside chat

I'm still wading through all the notes I took at the Google I/O 2008 conference last week. If you want to see pictures, check out my flickr photoset (183 photos). While I was there, I went to two sessions called "fireside chats". Although there was no fire...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Web Toolkit, Google Web Toolkit 1.5, JS, Q., Q. Google Web Toolkit 1.5, Q. Model, Programming Languages, RPC, Development Tools, Java, Scripting Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Networking, Web Development, Ed Burnette

Blog posts 2008-06-05

23andme presents its consumer strategy

It's research, and the tentative name for it is 23andwe, although the company has yet to buy a separate domain name. The phrase was first used by co-founder Linda Avey at a Bio-IT World Expo keynote earlier this month. The idea was fleshed out...

Tags: Strategy, Researcher, Survey, Marketing Research, Domain Names, Marketing, Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-29

Moore's Law and health care

Roland Piquepaille's latest take on nanobots in the bloodstream has me reflecting on the greatest force we have available for surviving health care inflation. Moore's Law. Moore's Law, the idea that technology gets faster-and-faster faster-and-faster, is not applied often enough to health care. Regulation...

Tags: Health Care, Moore, Law, Nanoscience, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-05-20

Nanorobots to improve health care

Using nanorobots to deliver drugs and fight diseases is not a new idea check here or there. Of course, nanorobots floating inside our bodies to improve our health are still years away. However, an international team of American and Australian researchers is developing a nanorobot hardware architecture for medical defense...

Tags: Software, 3D, Protein, Biomedical, Health Care, Hardware Architecture, Healthcare, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-05-19