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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/21/education/patenting-their-discoveries-does-not-pay-off-for-most-universities-a-study-says.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&seid=auto&_r=0

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http://news.yale.edu/2013/11/07/study-finds-americans-want-clinicians-guidance-genetic-test-results

Half a Million DVDs in Your #DNA: Nice writeup of Goldman et al paper, highlighting 3X density incr. to >2 PB / g DNA
http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2013/01/half-million-dvds-your-dna

Very interesting discussion outside of science about the potential of storing large quantities of archival data on DNA. The statistic is that you can store a little more than 2 petabytes in a gram of DNA. This is actually cost effective relative to magnetic tape if one wants to do storage for >500 years. However one imagines that as the price of DNA sequencing and synthesis goes down this will become more favorable, perhaps being reasonable for archival storage in the ~50 year regimen. One of the issues with DNA storage, of course, is the lack of random access and the inability to rewrite over already stored media. But for long-term archival storage DNA is considerably more stable than the magnetic storage on tape or disk.

http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2013/01/half-million-dvds-your-dna http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v494/n7435/full/nature11875.html

New York’s mayor-elect
Possibly better not to screw it up?
Nov 6th 2013, 13:43 by The Economist

Departing Mayor #Bloomberg’s catchphrase: In God we trust; everyone else, bring data
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2013/11/new-york-s-mayor-elect via @adeel_scorpion #datascience

Battle for the Barrel: Going from E10 to E25 gas (%ethanol) is a battle between #biofuel hopefuls & big #oil
https://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6126/1374

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23467469
Should You Mix Those Two Drugs? Ask Dr. #Google. Nice use of co-associated #search queries by @Rbaltman et al.
http://news.sciencemag.org/math/2013/03/should-you-mix-those-two-drugs-ask-dr.-google

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