Biotechnology, RSS, Twitter, News Feed, Information. This post was co-written by Euan Ramsay. The quantity of information accessible via the web can be overwhelming, but through judicious use of free web-based tools a strategy for managing content can be devised. In our experience, biotech entrepreneurs have been slower to adopt these tools than their high-tech cousins. Therefore, this is the first in a series of how-to posts for biotechnologists interested in using web-, mobile- and social-based technologies to source, organize, manage and consume content from the internet. The following post provides an overview of RSS and Twitter primarily to “pull” content, and includes examples of biotech content sourced using these tools.
In later posts we will discuss the use of social media to push your content to the community. I would love to hear how you use RSS feeds and Twitter to expand your biotech knowledge. Setup your RSS reader & Twitter Account. Your RSS reader. Your Twitter account. Follow General Industry Related Stories and Buzz. What the Frak? Battlestar Galactica’s Science Explained | Wired Science. When the science fiction drama Battlestar Galactica ended in 2009, it left some geeks wanting answers. How can a humanoid robot plug directly into a spaceship? How does Galactica‘s faster-than-light travel work? And what the frak was up with the mitochondrial Eve thing? To find out, Wired.com spoke with Patrick Di Justo, Wired magazine contributing editor and co-author of the new book, The Science of Battlestar Galactica. Together with the show’s science advisor, NASA scientist Kevin Grazier, Di Justo jumps beyond the red line to delve into the science behind the story — and discovers that some things lie beyond what science can reach.
Spoiler alert: Major plot points ahead. Wired.com: What was the purpose of this book? Patrick Di Justo: Battlestar Galactica has been called “a science fiction show without the science.” So we thought, hey, no one’s really building up the science in the show, and it’s there. Wired.com: So in the show’s philosophy, who wins in the science-versus-drama battle? Pull and Push door concept makes coming and going a lot easier. The design offers a handle to the 'Pull' side and a panel to the 'Push' side offering a more intuitive answer (Imaget: Jeon Hwan Soo) Image Gallery (3 images) In the current day and age of design, you might have imagined we'd have come up with an aesthetic, intuitive and practical answer to the “Push – Pull” dichotomy frustrating and embarrassing confused shoppers and office-workers everywhere.
While there are solutions such as the "push bar – pull handle" design often found in schools, student designer Jeon Hwan Soo has come up with a smart and instinctive all-in-one design that could reduce the number of people pulling an arm out of its socket or running into a door when they have pushed when they should have pulled or vice versa. The problem is that “Push” and “Pull” are often not sufficiently different visually and no standard differentiation has ever been introduced. Via Yanko Design Post a CommentRelated Articles Just enter your friends and your email address into the form below. Blogging Innovation » Five People That Kill Innovation. Who are the people that kill innovation in corporate organizations? Here is my take on five personas. Let me know what you think and what you can you add. Executives, who do not get innovation: The actions of executives continue to be the single-most important element when it comes to making innovation happen in organizations.
Incompetent innovation directors: These people must be able to fulfill the needs of current and future markets. It only takes a few people with the wrong mindset in the “right” places to kill innovation. 365 Days, $10 Million, 3 Rounds, 2 Companies, All With 5 Magic Slides. Editor’s note: The following is a guest post by Socialcast founder Tim Young detailing how he raised 3 rounds totaling $10M in VC money in a year’s time with a 5-slide deck. This was originally published at “Knowledge Is Social.” “I have a short five-slide deck to share that provides a solid framework for understanding our business.” Since moving to San Francisco a little over a year ago, I have spent every day helping to build Socialcast and about.me. During this time, I have raised more than $10 million combined over 3 funding rounds for both Socialcast and about.me. Convincing venture capitalists to invest in two startups in less than 365 days was a challenging task, but one that quickly taught me the dos and don’ts of raising money.
Stop using the projector for initial meetings Most of my initial venture partner meetings ended up in a conference room. Understanding an investor’s perspective Every venture partner has his or her own ideal approach to learning about your business. 1. 2. Dead Drops: Flash Drives in City Walls for Random Offline File Sharing - Culture. Dead drop letter boxes refer to secret locations sometimes used by spies to exchange items or letters without requiring them to meet or use official postal services. As part of his ongoing residency with EYEBEAM in New York City, the artist Aram Bartholl has updated the concept for the modern age. His Dead Drops project involves placing USB flash drives around the city; fastening them to walls, curbs, and buildings; and inviting strangers to plug-in their laptops and share their favorite files or data. The end result, as Bartholl explains, will be an "anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space.
" It will eventually include a documentary film about the process and files shared, as well as a map and a "how to make your own dead drop" manual. And, ultimately, it will serves as an object lesson in what happens when strangers share information in public. All New York City locations are listed here. Via Buzzfeed. Oxford English Dictionary Lets You Save the Words - Culture. In Situ Skin Bioprinting for Burn Wounds. 0inShare Researchers from Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine in North Carolina, have developed a portable skin printing system that uses living cells to create tissue-engineered skin grafts to cover burn wounds. It is hoped to be eventually purposed to allow on-site in situ repair of battlefield burn wounds.
The device prints layers of fibroblasts and keratinocytes directly onto the skin. The suspensions with cells are mixed with fibrinogen, type I collagen and thrombin at the moment of application. The printer was tested on artificially created full-thickness skin wounds in nude mice. The printed cells survived the in situ printing process and wound recovery was much faster than in the control group. Wouter Stomp is an MD - Researcher / PhD candidate at the radiology department of Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands.
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