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. Why are you providing this annotation in such a weird form?
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.


Interesting method to say, I‘m not finished and it probably beats a blog post. 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. Why are you providing this annotation in such a weird form?
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.


Interesting method to say, I‘m not finished and it probably beats a blog post. 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. Why are you providing this annotation in such a weird form?
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.


Interesting method to say, I‘m not finished and it probably beats a blog post.

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.

Why are you providing this annotation in such a weird form?

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.

Interesting method to say, I‘m not finished and it probably beats a blog post.

Heading to the function with the homie who’s too cool to care. (at Lynwood, CA)

My reading list for the next year.

My reading list for the next year.

Dude. Dude. Dude. Dude.
By way of cyberpunkculture:

Bio hacking - Control a living insect from your smartphone!

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. By way of cyberpunkculture:

Bio hacking - Control a living insect from your smartphone!

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.

By way of cyberpunkculture:

Bio hacking - Control a living insect from your smartphone!

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.

“A more important consequence than random coin tosses is the uncertainty that is the basis of the random DNA mutations necessary for evolution. A truly indeterminate local physics guarantees that this process has some “noise,” and that mutation is always possible in principle. The chemistry of DNA replication involves, after all, exchanges of electrons and atoms, which are quantum objects.”
The Rise of the Uncertain [Nautilus]

This seems like a fantastic and expensive way to solve zero of the problems that you aim to address.

“I don’t mean to be shallow, but your dorsal thorax looks amazing. If you see this before our life cycle comes to its imminent end, want to meet up by the fountain and lap up some melted rocket-pop syrup from the sidewalk, then listen to my calling song followed by my courting song, head off to the nearest branch to fulfill our biological imperative to spawn hundreds of larvae in tree slits, and then get brunch? I was the cicada with wings, noise-making tymbals, and a mischievous smile. To prove you’re who I’m posting about, tell me what you were molting.”