Through our collaborations and programs like the GET Conference, Personal Genome Project, & Open Humans, we have the good fortune of interacting with a lot of people doing incredible things in the world.  So we are continuing with our series that will keep track of noteworthy articles and media featuring individuals in our broad network.  Here is a selection of recent highlights. We hope you enjoy it:

• Madeleine Ball
  • Personal Data Freedom
    • Medium

• Randy Buckner
  • Odyssey Program Poised to Revolutionize Research
    • Harvard Crimson

• George Church
  • Harvard’s George Church: ‘Gene leakage research will blunt anti-GMO activist scares’
    • Genetic Literacy Project
  • Why are scientists vilified when they profit from their innovations?
    • Genetic Literacy Project

• Esther Dyson
  • Can Esther Dyson’s Way to Wellville Challenge Improve Population Health?
    • HIT Consultant

• Thomas Goetz
  • Patient-sourced drug satisfaction data has its own role to play in healthcare
    • Mobi Health News

• Jose Gomez-Marquez
  • MIT Lab Develops Rapid Diagnostic Tests For Ebola And Dengue
    • Forbes

• Robert Green
  • GINA, Genetic Discrimination, and Genomic Medicine
    • New England Journal of Medicine

• John Wilbanks
  • John DeLong, John Wilbanks, Cynthia Dwork @ Harvard Data Privacy Symposium 1/23
    • Harvard Institute for Applied Computational Science (YouTube video)

Through our collaborations and programs like the GET Conference, Personal Genome Project, & Open Humans, we have the good fortune of interacting with a lot of people doing incredible things in the world.  So, we are starting a new series that will keep track of noteworthy articles and media featuring individuals in our broad network.  Here is a selection of recent highlights, we hope you enjoy it:

• Eric Alm
  • MIT and Massachusetts General Hospital Team Up on New Microbiome-Based Therapies
    • Bio-IT World

• What does Cambridge sewage say about residents? MIT plans to find out
  • Boston Globe

• David Altshuler
  • David Altshuler, M.D., Ph.D., Joins Vertex as Executive Vice President of Global Research and Chief Scientific Officer
    • MarketWatch

• Misha Angrist
  • How Drug Companies Will Mine Your Genes
    • Fusion

• Jonathan Bingham
  • With Genomics Platform, Google Seeks to Bring Infrastructure, Other Capabilities to Bear on Biomedicine
    • Genome Web

• George Church
  • The Time Traveler: George Church Plans to Bring Back a Creature That Went Extinct 4,000 Years Ago
    • Re/code
  • Bacteria ‘factories’ churn out valuable chemicals
    • Macro Insider
  • Scientists claim breakthrough in taming genetically modified E.coli bacteria
    • Washington Post

• John Conley
  • Q&A: Lawyer John Conley Counters Lab Industry Arguments against FDA Regulatory Authority over LDTs
    • Genome Web

• Esther Dyson
  • Muskegon County leaders, health officials discuss wellness initiatives for ‘Wellville’ challenge
    • MLive

• ‘Wellville’ journey begins: Crowd gathers to kickoff 5-year, $5 million health challenge
  • Daily Astorian

• Deborah Estrin
  • ‘Healthier Life’ master’s degree blends tech, health care
    • Cornell Chronicle

• Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
  • Henry Louis Gates Jr. finds rich history in genetic code
    • Bay State Banner

• Thomas Goetz
  • Electronic Health Startup Iodine Gets FDA Nod in Data Sharing Project
    • Recode

• David Goldstein
  • Columbia University Medical Center forges $30 million alliance with global biotechnology company
    • Columbia Spector

• Robert Green
  • Would you sequence the genome of your newborn? A majority of Mass. parents say yes
    • Beta Boston

• Stephen Heuser
  • Boston Globe’s Stephen Heuser to Lead Politico’s New Policy Project
    • Media Bistro

• Ben Heywood
  • Always On: Taking the Privacy Pulse of Today’s Digital Patient
    • Center for Democracy and Technology blog

• A.J. Jacobs
  • For A.J. Jacobs, It’s All Relative
    • Forward

• How Technology Is Changing the Family Tree: A Future Tense Event Recap
  • Slate

• Rob Knight
  • Behind The Scenes At The Lab That Fingerprints Microbiomes
    • NPR

• One Scientist’s Race To Help Microbes Help You
  • NPR

• Isaac Kohane
  • Q&A: Isaac Kohane on the Goals, Tasks for HMS’s New Biomedical Informatics Department
    • Genome Web

• Steven Pinker
  • Susanna Siegel and Steven Pinker discussion on YouTube
    • Harvard University’s Department of Philosophy site

• Mark Zuckerberg picks Steven Pinker as his book club’s next choice
  • The Guardian

• Stephen Quake
  • A Stethoscope for the Next 200 Years
    • Wall Street Journal

• Heidi Rehm
  • Partners LMM Launches Clinical Exome Test, Updates Panels; Data-sharing Efforts Draw on ClinVar
    • Genome Web

• Eric Schadt
  • How Many Heartbeats Today? Are Patients Ready to Become Tech-empowered Healthcare Consumers?
    • Techonomy
  • DNA Sequencing Sewage To Map Pathogens In Real-Time
    • Med Device Online
  • In a New Approach to Fighting Disease, Helpful Genetic Mutations Are Sought
    • New York Times

• Stephen Scherer
  • Autism Speaks Launches “MSSNG” Campaign to Support Groundbreaking Whole Genome Sequencing Program
    • Virtual-Strategy Magazine
  • ‘Deep learning’ finds autism, cancer mutations in unexplored regions of the genome
    • Eurekalert

• James Watson
  • James Watson discusses discovering DNA
    • Washington Post (video)
  • The richest man in Russia bought James Watson’s Nobel prize just so he could return it
    • Washington Post

• Carl Zimmer
  • Frankenstein Can’t Come Out And Play Today
    • National Geographic