Life Science

Having gushed effusively about Leroy Hood, I’d like to turn to the China part of the conference. First, through, one last note about Hood. He had three messages for the Chinese: Everything he’s ever done that was important (including current work) has been met with great resistance. It’s not too late to get in on the ground floor of systems ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most interesting aspects of this conference on molecular medicine was a couple of sessions about intellectual property (IP). IP is the mother’s milk of the life science industry. What they have that is really of value is what they know and know how to do. Those intangibles are the gold assets of the industry just as the ...