Biology as a manufacturing technology could well be the key to a more resilient, sustainable development agenda […]Whilst preventing the malign use of such a capacity will be one factor, there are a host of other issues that will need to be address in our national oversight frameworks, including the impact on: energy security; resource …
Read National and Transnational Security Implications of Big Data in the Life Sciences by AAAS/FBI/UNICRI, 2014 http://www.aaas.org/report/national-and-transnational-security-implications-big-data-life-sciences
Because I learnt that most french schools weren’t teaching any computer science (other than word processing), I am giving a course using Scratch in an elementary school (8 to 9 year old) to teach them some basics about programming. I put together a very basic quiz with if-then-else and equals. scratch.mit.edu/ Hopefully, they’ll play with …
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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/report-researchers-are-becoming-too-obsessed-with-chasing-pageviews ….that, and writing about what they would do *if* they had money. «Exiger des scientifiques qu’ils mènent des recherches avec un haut facteur d’impact crée un biais fort: cela les décourage de faire des recherches très risquées et cela réduit les chances de découvertes révolutionnaires inattendues.» (fr) http://www.slate.fr/life/85045/etudes-scientifiques-tuent-science
DIY Bioterrorism Part I: The Age for Synthetic Biology and the Threat to Global Security January 27, 2014 By Adam Bernier and Patrick Rose DIY Bioterrorism Part I: The Age for Synthetic Biology and the Threat to Global Security Notes: Many countries have been promoting an economic plan that includes the biotechnology industry as a …
Can’t wait to try it……Ero.Coli!!!! I love the name. http://www.dsynbio.com/
TED: Roger Stein: A bold new way to fund drug research “Believe it or not, about 20 years’ worth of potentially life-saving drugs are sitting in labs right now, untested. Why? Because they can’t get the funding to go to trials; the financial risk is too high. Roger Stein is a finance guy, and he …
Learn about the opportunity to participate in the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Policy and Practices New Track Competition of Synthetic Biology at http://2014.igem.org/Tracks/Policy_Practices ! What is iGEM? http://vimeo.com/44891358 Teams will propose innovative ways of thinking about the ethical, legal, social, economic, biosafety, environmental or biosecurity landscape of synthetic biology. Share the flyer !>> iGEM_P&P_track_flyer_Feb2014