Cathal Garvey – indie biotech
As you might be aware, I proposed a panel for SXSW [http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/ideas/view/10348] on DIYbio. One person who I think epitomizes DIYbio is Cathal ...
Category: Innovation
Region awash in a new wave of wee breweries with big plans – The Boston Globe
“Where others see barroom taps crowded with beer options, Chris Lohring sees opportunity brewing.” A nice article on the state of breweries in the r...
Photos: Mass. breweries and their top beers – Boston.com
“Brewing good beer isn’t something unique to Ireland, Germany, or the mountains of Vermont. In fact, there are quite a few craft breweries in Massac...
Photos: Local craft breweries are on the rise – Boston.com
“A new wave of niche breweries is the most noteworthy since the mid-1990s. New England is playing catch-up with California and other parts of the country ...
Sociometric Solutions deploying digital ‘dog tags’ to track employee interactions – Boston.com
“The digital dog tag, which Watertown-based Sociometric Solutions calls the “sociometric badge,” has a built-in microphone that can gauge how ...
Ginkgo organism engineers and the pipe – Ginkgoo blog
“Here I’ll try to give a high-level picture of Ginkgo’s pipeline for organism engineering. If you’ve checked out our webpage, you’ll see that we have seve...
Chemically evolved bacteria
“European scientists have created an Escherichia coli strain with a separate genome using chlorinated DNA. The genome should be unable to transfer back in...
Comprendia and New England Biolabs Connect Epigenetics Scientists – PRNewsWire
“Comprendia, leading developer of web 2.0 and social media tools for the life sciences, sponsored by molecular biology reagents provider New England Biola...
In Massachusetts, entrepreneurs are on a mission to make a difference – The Boston Globe
“I was knocking back a Harpoon IPA last week in an old textile warehouse in Boston, thinking about what Massachusetts will mean to the global economy in t...
Open access comes of age : Nature News
“A study of open-access publishing — published last week in the open-access journal PLoS ONE — has found that the number of papers in freely accessible jo...