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GeekWire Podcast: Reclaiming our lives through more mindful use of technology

GeekWire

The startup, co-founded with Jorn Rigter (chief techology officer) and Tim Smits (chief product officer), offers an app, subscription service, and keychain tag designed to help people become more mindful about their use of smartphones, social media, and other addictive apps. “You have to think twice. .” month) for $59.95.

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The fight against ‘murder hornets’: Kevlar thread to tie on trackers, thick foam suits to prevent stings

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An Asian giant hornet that was tagged by the Washington State Department of Agriculture flies through the air with a bent radio tracker antenna. “We have switched to Kevlar thread this year,” Spichiger said, noting that three hornets were captured and tagged this year. But the tag was never recovered or relocated.

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The ‘golden age’ for research tools: Parse Biosciences raises $41.5M for single-cell tech

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Rosenberg and his colleagues discovered a new way to profile RNAs in the lab of lab of UW synthetic biology professor Georg Seelig. Instead it starts by adding a tag to a pool of cells. The cells from different pools are then combined, split into new pools and another tag added.

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Life Will Find a Way

Phil Windley

Building on the pillars of evolutionary theory, Lane’s hypothesis draws on cutting-edge research into the link between energy and cell biology, in order to deliver a compelling account of evolution from the very origins of life to the emergence of multicellular organisms, while offering deep insights into our own lives and deaths.

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The one huge obstacle standing in the way of progress on gene-editing medicine

Vox

“Broadly, there’s been an issue with human genetics research — there’s been a major under-representation of people of African ancestry, both in the US and elsewhere,” said Sarah Tishkoff , professor of genetics and biology at the University of Pennsylvania. Sometimes, a more conventional approach still works best.

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Researchers create synthetic proteins that use logic to choose which cells to kill

GeekWire

We showed in the paper that the Effector protein could be a small-molecule-tagged protein or a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) on a T cell, but there are many other possible options as well.” “Unfortunately, most cells lack a single surface marker that is unique to just them. Co-LOCKR has its limitations.

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Geek of the Week: UW’s Vikram Iyer uses small insects to tackle big wireless computing problems

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“The ability to augment live animals with small electronics also opens up applications that weren’t possible before,” Iyer said, adding that they’ve gotten interest from other researchers working in biology and conservation. He develops creative solutions that are at the intersection of hardware, software and biology.

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