Three research groups, working independently of one another, reported in the journal Science on Thursday that they had used the Crispr-Cas9 technique to treat mice with a defective dystrophin gene. Each group loaded the DNA-cutting system onto a virus that infected the mice’s muscle cells, and excised from the gene a defective stretch of DNA …
The U.K.-based Centre for Economics and Business Research has their latest 16 year global nominal exchange rate GDP projections out to 2031. Currently on a nominal exchange rate basis countries are ranked as follows 1. USA $18 trillion 2. China $11.4 trillion 3. Japan $4.1 trillion 4. Germany $3.3 trillion 5. UK $3.0 trillion 6. …
Full Genomes corporation is using Illumina’s groundbreaking HiSeq X next-generation sequencing platform to offer low cost whole genome sequencing. Full Genomes offers 10 times coverage whole genome sequencing for $725. They provide the following: BAM file (roughly 50 GB) variant summary reports from SnpEff and VEP autosomal and chrX variant identification (as two VCF files): …
Thursday’s New Years eve domestic box office should move Star Wars the Force Awakens into second place all-time domestic box office. Star Wars the Force Awakens should be the All time Domestic box office movie by Tuesday after 19 days of release. Star Wars the Force Awakens is showing a slower dropoff in daily earnings …
HPE will be releasing the initial version of “the machine” in 2016. It’s expected to be about the size of a server rack, with 320 terabytes of memory and more than 2,500 CPU cores. But one key Machine component will be missing: the memristor. Although HP previously showed off wafers containing memristors, a commercial offering …