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Walter Gilbert: Big data and genome sequencing not good for medical purposes
The Laureate who devised the DNA sequencing method discusses his apprehensions about medical applications of big data and genome sequencing.
Nature Video: A life in science with Elizabeth Blackburn
Elizabeth Blackburn grew up in Hobart on the Australian island of Tasmania. It was a long journey from there to a Nobel prize and the lab she runs at the University of California in San Francisco. Malaria researcher Clare Smith is also a Hobart girl, and she’s trying to decide whether to follow in Blackburn’s […]
Mountains Beyond Mountains
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed, the measure of our intellectual maturity is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.- G.W. Allport,Becoming, 1955 Science in the popular mind consists of a series of "Eureka!" moments. Such moments […]
Die Mikrobe aus der Retorte
Zu den Geistern, die dieses Jahr über den Wassern des Bodensees schweben, gesellt sich dieses Jahr einer, den wir zweifellos bald auch in körperlicher Form in Lindau begrüßen dürfen: Über den Genetiker J. Craig Venter und seine neueste Kreation wird viel geredet werden, wenn die bedeutendsten Wissenschaftler unserer Zeit mit der nächsten Forschergeneration diskutieren. Und […]