More on bacteria and asthma
There’s a theory going around to explain the rise in asthma: we’re too clean. Research in the past 5 years has slowly been teasing out how this might be. Link (...
Category: Science
The new germ theory
Lizzie Buchen from Nature (link below) wrote a great article on some cool work folks are doing to change the way we view bacteria. For example, one group (like ...
Commentary on Synthetic Biology: Either. Or.
Either "Scientists should NOT be allowed to create artificial life" Or "Scientists SHOULD be allowed to create artificial life" Is this real...
DIYBio meet-up – Folk Microbiology
It was a night of culture – yoghurt cultures. Vaughn Tan shared his passion for yoghurt with about two dozen captivated future yoghurt makers. He spoke ab...
Do we need a DIYbio academy?
Among my many ideas I have lying around is some form of institute to support the DIYbio community. This is different from the meet-ups happening in places like ...
Culture as Augmented Reality?
I was listening to Wade Davis' Long Now talk about the wisdom of ancient cultures. Like all Long Now talks, it got me thinking. One thing that Wade said th...
Moderating panel on “Healthcare 2.0: The Impact of Social Media on Health Information”
Babson College's Health and Life Sciences Club are hosting their 7th annual industry forum tomorrow. I'll be moderating a panel on social media and he...
I’m giving a brown-bag at UMass Amherst on DIYbio and Synthetic Biology on 07apr10
I'm going to be out at UMass Amherst visiting my PhD advisor, Craig Martin. He's been so kind to let me do a brown-bag discussion around DIYBio and Sy...
An author ID system is essential to the future of science publishing
Nature recently wrote an article on a proposed Author ID system. I find this momentous. In my vision of the Future of Science Publishing, which is highly based ...
Institutional science needs to change
I was having lunch with some old ex-lab friends. Unlike me, who left the lab at the end of the 90s, all three of them have kept on doing research and medicine a...