August 2010
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Gnu Gemone →
The recent announcement of a probable $30 genome by GnuBio corporation, a company based on the technology of David Weitz, a Physics professor at Harvard University. GnuBio will be employing an open…
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Gnu genome
There have been a number of developments in Gene sequencing techniques over the past few years. The five year race to a $1000 human genome may come to an end the year end and that too in great finesse. The recent announcement of a probable $30 genome by GnuBio corporation, a company based on the technology of David Weitz, a Physics professor at Harvard University, has shocked the genetic testing...
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Heparin Money!!
Just came across this interesting news-bit in last month’s Nature Biotechnology.
“On May 6, Li Li and his wife Li Tan became China’s richest couple when their company, Hepalink Pharmaceutical, in Shenzhen, floated on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Although they lost the crown soon after, when stock prices slumped in mid-May, this is the first time the biopharma sector has produced...
