Tag Archives: biotech

Genomic Liberty For All?

By Daniel | Published: March 29, 2013

Bad news: you don’t own your own DNA because the human genome is nearly entirely patented. These patents present a legal barrier to life-saving biomedical research and diagnosis. The good news is that on April 15th the US Supreme Court will hear arguments in a landmark case focusing on human breast cancer genes. Please take [...]

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Bacterial hash functions for better living.

By Daniel | Published: April 4, 2012
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Well hello there. It’s been a while! Since my last post I’ve moved to East Harlem (El Barrio) and started working with my Hunter iGEM team on bacterial computers! We’re official! What’s iGEM? It’s an international competition to use and create standardized biological parts to create biological machines. Here’s a old but neat New Yorker [...]

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A simulating winter!

By Daniel | Published: January 26, 2012

That’s a graph automatically generated by the cell signalling pathway simulation automation software I developed over the winter break. It’s a bit ugly — a quick and dirty CDF rendered in R of activation times of ERK in the TCR (T-Cell Receptor) pathway model for a particular endogenous pMHC ligand dosage. Fancy lingo, eh? The [...]

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