Blog Comments

Kinetica Online is pleased to provide direct links to commentaries from our senior editor Dr. Steven Pelech has posted on other blogs sites. Most of these comments appear on the GenomeWeb Daily Scan website, which in turn highlight interesting blogs that have been posted at numerous sites in the blogosphere since the beginning of 2010. A wide variety of topical subjects are covered ranging from the latest scientific breakthroughs, research trends, politics and career advice. The original blogs and Dr. Pelech’s comments are summarized here under the title of the original blog. Should viewers wish to add to these discussions, they should add their comments at the original blog sites.

The views expressed by Dr. Pelech do not necessarily reflect those of the other management and staff at Kinexus Bioinformatics Corporation. However, we wish to encourage healthy debate that might spur improvements in how biomedical research is supported and conducted.

Kitchen Biology

Blogger Veronique Greenwood at the 80beats blog offered a new program on PBS, NOVA's "Cracking Your Genetic Code," as a good example of why DIY (do-it-yourself) biohacking has taken hold. A PBS promotional video shows how simple it can be to extract DNA using common household products. Prompted by the video, S. Pelech recalls an encounter with a venture capitalist that had not actually taken any formal training in the life sciences, but who had control of the investment of over $100 million dollars of funding into biotechnology companies for more than 10 years and served on the board of directors of several of these firms. Read More...