I picked this up from Alex Steed’s blog on the NetSquared site. Allison Fine has written a discussion paper for the Social Citizens site about the impact of Millenials on social engagement with causes. It’s a good rundown of Millenial values and approaches to doing cause-related activities with components of idealism, digital fluency, and a collaborative approach to involvement. But ...

The ACS used to have an innovation process called Springboard. Un fortunately that program is no more because of budget cuts. But if you have a wild hare idea to save the world Google–who else?–has a place to put your idea out there and maybe get some money. …Never in history have so many people had so much information, so ...

Some see the future of medicine as “personalized medicine.” It’s based on gathering deep information about us from two molecular sources: complete genomes and biomarker monitoring. Full genome scanning at low cost is promised by companies like Pacific Biosciences. And places like the Institute for Systems Biology are working on microfluidic detectors for proteins in the blood. With all this ...

Back in the video Jeans…or Genes? I mentioned that Pacific Biosciences was claiming it was working on technology to sequence a whole human genome in 15 minutes! Sounded a lot like a boast to entice VC funding. But they’ve gotten a step closer to making the thing a reality. According to Technology Review they now have a video of the ...