SF Bay Area: Jason Peters from UCSF to talk about CRISPR

Saturday, September 10, 2016 from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM (PDT)
Skyline College - 3300 College Drive, Building 6 2nd floor, San Bruno, CA 94066
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Meanwhile on Mars

http://www.chromatographytoday.com/news/gc-ms/46/breaking_news/if_there_is_no_life_on_mars_blame_the_meteorites._chromatography_investigates/40128/

MOF: metal-organic frameworks enable seeing molecular bonds in 3D

An interesting development at Prof. Omar M. Yaghi's lab at UCB:

http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2016/08/18/new-way-display-3-d-structure-molecules/

CRISPR cas-9 (More than 2 million people watched this)

CRSPR - Cas9 alternative Argonaute

Anyone working with Argonaute?  Results?  Pass or fail?



http://blog.addgene.org/comparing-cas9-to-ngago-can-the-argonautes-best-crispr

CRISPR Cas-9 in this month's National Geographic

Since the 1800's, National Geographic has been continually opening up the exploration of the universe to share with us. Here's a basic but interesting article on CRISPR Cas-9 and how it is changing our world.  


http://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2016/08/dna-crispr-gene-editing-science-ethics/

Zika Virus vaccine

New vaccine proves effective in preventing Brazilian strain of Zika Virus in animal tests. 

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaap/ncurrent/pdf/nature18952.pdf

Meet Dr. Chip, who will now run a few diagnostics

IBM Nanobiotechnology team's results show size-based separation of bioparticles down to 20 nanometers (nm) in diameter, a scale that gives access to important particles such as DNA, viruses and exosomes

read more here