Hacking the President’s DNA
Almost a year ago, I collaborated with Future Crimes visionary Marc Goodman and bestselling author and writer Steven Kotler to speculate how the advances in personalized medicine could be co-opted for less than altruistic purposes. We submitted the article to the Atlantic Magazine. The article appears in November 2012 issue, on your newsstand now. (Here’s the online...
iGEM Regionals complete, now onto World Championship
The iGEM genetic engineering competition regional events are over and now teams are heading to the World Championship, to be held at MIT in Cambridge November 2-5. The regional results can be found here. Overall, 190 teams from over 30 countries are participating and the competition is fierce! See you there! Recent News Articles iGEM Bioengineering...
Are dreams of Jurassic Park extinct?
A paper published October 10, 2012 in the Proceedings of the Royal Society Biological Sciences attempts to measure the half life of DNA. (Full text not available for free but a good overview can be found here in Nature news.) By measuring the decay of mitochondrial DNA in bone samples of the extinct New Zealand...
