It sometimes taxes my credulity when I hear that measurement and manipulation of individual molecules is possible. At the California-China Connection conference, Leroy Hood talked about chips in development to measure individual molecules in biological studies. I tend to think, “:Aw, c’mon! You’re pullin’ my leg.” But here’s an article about a technique developed at the National Institute of Standards ...

Forbes.com – Magazine Article An article about how drug markets and products are floating around the globe with arbitragers moving drugs from low purchase price countries to higher price ones. The pharmas say this is going to stop. They’ll only sell new drugs at one price worldwide. Let ’em float wherever people are willing and able to pay the price. ...

I just want to say “Welcome!” to any California Division volunteers who are checking-out FISpace for the first time.

I attended a meeting at UC San Diego last week called the “California-China Connection.” It was organized by the journal Nature and UCSD as a kind of hands-across-the-sea program to bring the heads of Chinese universities with growing biotechnology programs to the US—specifically to fraternize with UCSD faculty—and talk about how each can advance growth in biological science. It makes ...