It’s Nobel time! Hands up: how many of you have checked so far the official website of the Nobel Foundation called Nobelprize.org? And please try to recall how you usually found out who won the particular Nobel prizes in the past years. This year...
Topics: Nobel Prize, science

Finally 23andMe, my first personal genetics service provider, is on Twitter which could mean that from now on first-hand company information will flow even more continuously compared to what the regularly/daily updated eminent corporate blog can offer....
Topics: 23andMe, personalized genetics, personalized genomics, Twitter, USA

I ordered my first commercial genetic profile from 23andMe on the 9th of September online, FedExed my 2 ml saliva from Budapest to 23andMe, Mountain View on the 12th of September. I got the results today. That said within 3 weeks since the birth of the...
Topics: 23andMe, biotechnology, Budapest, california, genetics, genomics, partial immortalization, personalized genetics, personalized genomics, science, Silicon Valley, technology, USA

The Institute for the Future’s X2 project is all about tracing future trends in science and technology As the steward of the Biomedical Sciences and Biotechnology Group I collect signals in these fields on which some forecasts can be based later...
Topics: biology, biotechnology, partial immortalization, regenerative medicine, science, stem cells

I had problems with my handwriting since elementary schools, or at least my teachers had continuous problems with it. Even during my university years I was asked sometimes to read out loud my essays, papers to them otherwise risking bad grades. Maybe...
Topics: aging, Aubrey de Grey, Chris Patil, google, googleplex, life extension, partial immortalization, personal, science, SciFoo, Silicon Valley, unconference, USA