here: http://www.design.philips.com/philips/sites/philipsdesign/about/design/designportfolio/design_futures/bio_light.page
Biosecurity for the Age of Redesigned Life (Science Friday) Forget dissecting frogs and building potato batteries. High school students today are learning genetic engineering–and some are even redesigning life. Bioethicists and the FBI have taken note and are rethinking biosecurity for the synthetic biology revolution. GO LISTEN! http://www.sciencefriday.com/segment/11/08/2013/biosecurity-for-the-age-of-redesigned-life.html
[google-translator] Lordon et le capitalisme “waoow”, d@ns le texte Ou : le néo-libéralisme expliqué par l’angle alpha Video: http://www.arretsurimages.net/emissions/2010-09-30/Lordon-et-le-capitalisme-waoow-d-ns-le-texte-id3405 (fr) “Les hommes se trompent en ce qu’ils se croient libres, cette opinion consiste en cela seul qu’ils sont conscients de leurs désirs, et ignorants des causes qui les déterminent.” -Spinoza (A voir ici (fr) >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY8TH9ceyI0 …
Authors Mandy L Wilson, Sakiko Okumoto, Laura Adam, Jean Peccoud Publication date 2013/11/8 Journal Bioinformatics Volume30 Issue2 Pages 251-257 Abstract Motivation: Expression vectors used in different biotechnology applications are designed with domain-specific rules. For instance, promoters, origins of replication or homologous recombination sites are host-specific. Similarly, chromosomal integration or viral delivery of an expression cassette imposes specific …
An excellent article by Ronald K. Noble http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/140157/ronald-k-noble/keeping-science-in-the-right-hands
United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) publishes “Disarmament – A Basic Guide” in the six langauges http://unrec.org/index/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=307:le-desarmement-un-guide-de-reference&catid=46:disarmament-news&Itemid=46&lang=en
Hunting the Nightmare Bacteria Super bugs: multiresistant bacteria outbreaks with David E Hoffman Some keywords: Horizontal gene transfer, gram-negative, multiresistant, antibiotics, super bug Video: http://video.pbs.org/video/2365104403/ and background information, in depth http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hunting-the-nightmare-bacteria/ Dual-use and antibacterial resistance research? Making antibiotic-resistant bacterial strains by inserting a plasmid expressing resistance to a specific known antibiotic is routine in most …
It seems to be the first time that scientists THEMSELVES choose not to publish their work for biosecurity reasons. A first sign that responsible stewardship discourse in Life Science is taking roots? Why Scientists Held Back Details On A Unique Botulinum Toxin Excerpts: The new form of the toxin was discovered by Jason Barash and …
December 2012 –DTRA announces the 1M Algorithm Challenge to characterize a clinical sample from DNA sequencing data. http://www.prweb.com/releases/dtra/algorithm/prweb10233480.htm The challenge was managed by the online platform Innocentive: https://www.innocentive.com/ar/challenge/9933138 Innocentive is actually interesting to look at: (CIA through IN-Q-Tel) crowdsources scientific problems to solvers (http://www.foxbusiness.com/news/2012/11/29/how-in-q-tel-helps-cia-scout-for-innovative-technology-model-for-other-agencies/) Although very enthusiastic at first, I did not participate in the …