UC Berkeley professor Steven E. Brenner lets you construct a personalized annotated version of a text he wrote for the journal Nature on mitigating the potential dangers of genome leaks. [Comp Bio | Berkeley]
From the FAQ at the link above,
What is this document?
Collected jetsam. I submitted a rough piece to Nature, and the editor there helped whip it into shape and cut it down to size. Along the way, bits of text were left on the cutting room floor. I’ve collected some of those elisions that help motivate or explicate my points, as well as expanded on some queries I received. This document does not purport to be a full-fledged support of every detail in the piece.
Natureowns the copyright on my piece, and they were firm that I could not post the text anywhere else for 6 months, even for the sole purpose of providing the annotation. This print overlay was designed as a method that could be used by anyone to make an annotated version, without any special technology beyond a PDF viewer and a printer. Let me know if you have better ideas for how to legally distribute the annotations.
Why are you providing this annotation in such a weird form?
Interesting method to say, I‘m not finished and it probably beats a blog post.
My reading list for the next year.
Dude.
By way of cyberpunkculture:
This comes with some serious limitations, would it be a bit more ideal to come up with models (perhaps) that utilize optogenetics?
Modifying a roach to respond to stimuli for minutes at a time is fun, but controlling the memories, happiness levels or motion (among other things) of mice is another.
Just think about what kind of impact that may have on students who are curious about neuroscience.
The launch of several science mega-prizes is making some researchers millionaires but others question whether such awards are the best way to promote their field.
This seems like a fantastic and expensive way to solve zero of the problems that you aim to address.
Craigslist Missed Connections for Cicadas [The New Yorker]
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