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