Evan Eichler estimates that around 5% ~ 400 specific loci on the genome will require alternatives in the ref genome to capture diversity 21 hours ago
Lincoln Stein called the effort to finish the HGP ref genome 'more of an abstract exercise than 1 that's going to have a practical impact' 21 hours ago
Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, a movie-long effective presentation on climate change and crisis has made him the chief environmental evangelist of U.S. Incorporation. (I liked that he is doing his Keynotes himself, my Apps.) Now I have a better offer for Al Gore: be the first networking-presentation man of healthy life extension and an official aging crisis oracle. The facts are given, and the truth is unfortunately more inconvenient, specially from the mouth of a Baby Boomer. More inconvenient because unlike weather it is something that concerns our very physical make-up. But the technologies are within range.
Here is a not very well known Al Gore documentary made by Spike Jonze himself. Part 1:
18-19, December, Babbage Lecture Theatre, Cambridge: Opening Symposium including “A celebration of 25 years of embryonic stem cell research in Cambridge” From the intro: In 1981 two papers appeared that reported the derivation of pluripotent stem cell lines from cultured mouse embryos (1, 2). Now called embryonic stem (ES) cells, they have since transformed research in mammalian development, genetics, stem cell biology and regenerative medicine. Program here. I’ll have a poster there. The 2 papers:
Evans, M. J. & Kaufman, M. H. Establishment in culture of pluripotential cells from mouse embryos. Nature 292, 154-6. (1981).
Martin, G. R. Isolation of a pluripotent cell line from early mouse embryos cultured in medium conditioned by teratocarcinoma stem cells. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 78, 7634-7638 (1981).
The 2 papers: