Kirk Hartley
The Pace of Science and Business – More Speed
Velocity continues to increase for turning cutting edge molecular biology into businesses and new treatments. On March 14, the UK...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 11, 20141 min
Beautiful Evidence – Edward Tufte at NCSA and in Chicago
Digital data today pours out in immense quantities. How to see and convey the signal? With that in mind, Edward Tufte will soon be...
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Kirk Hartley
Mar 3, 20142 min
19X Excess Risk of Death – What Does It Mean?
Are you in general healthy? Are you free of the major risk factors for near term death (smoking, obesity, excess alcohol, lack of...
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Kirk Hartley
Feb 24, 20141 min
“Cook and Topol: How Digital Medicine Will Soon Save Your Life”
This WSJ article/op-ed provides insights and predictions into the relatively near-term future of personalized medical monitoring, and the...
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Kirk Hartley
Feb 23, 20142 min
Stem Cell Colonies Develop After Signaling by Killer T-Cells to Niche Cells
"Nine blood stem cell colonies are illustrated in the image, which have developed into differentiated cell types, particularly into white...
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Kirk Hartley
Feb 21, 20141 min
240 Whole Genomes Analyzed in Two Days Using 25% of a Supercomputer – at the University of Chi
How much change is ahead in molecular science, and then toxic torts? Consider this. A new paper reports that the University of Chicago’s...
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Kirk Hartley
Feb 17, 20141 min
Praedicat – Foretelling the Future of Toxic Tort Litigation
How many medical journal articles did you and your toxic tort team review in depth in 2013? Perhaps you have a deep and skilled team,...
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Kirk Hartley
Feb 11, 20141 min
Even the Economist is Following Genetic Therapies
Change is happening. Even the ever stodgy Economist is paying attention to and writing optimistically about genetic therapies. #Science
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Kirk Hartley
Feb 5, 20141 min
Exponential Errors and Change
A new book, the Second Machine Age, makes the point that human minds do not do well in grasping exponential errors or levels of change....
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Kirk Hartley
Feb 3, 20141 min
Quite the Week in Stem Cell Science
Another week and more revolutionary findings about stem cells and their ability to turn into any kind of cell. Why mention here these...
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Kirk Hartley
Jan 19, 20141 min
Synthetic Swimming Bio-bots – University of lllinois Engineers Innovate Again
(Credit: Alex Jerez Roman, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology) What can you get when you combine heart cells, wire and...
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Kirk Hartley
Jan 15, 20142 min
The $1,000 Genome Really Has Arrived – A Decade Ago It Cost $3.8 Billion
Illumina is the world leader in sequencing genes. From 1988-2003, the government-sponsored Human Genome Project blazed a wonderful trail...
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Kirk Hartley
Jan 2, 20142 min
“Printing” Additional Eye Cells Using Ink Jet Printer Systems
Welcome to 2014. Researchers took a succesfull first step on generating organized sets of eye cells using ink jet printing systems. This...
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Kirk Hartley
Dec 27, 20131 min
From Pets to Oncomice – The Story of the Mouse in Cancer Research
Ever wondered when and how biologists started using mice for cancer experiments? The answers are in an easy to read article from...
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Kirk Hartley
Dec 12, 20132 min
Long Term Cohort Studies – The Shanghai Cohort Study
Thinking long-term. It’s not necessarily a strength of lawyers or their clients. For scientists, however, it’s often a priority. Thus,...
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Kirk Hartley
Dec 11, 20131 min
Superstars of Science
Superstars of Science. It’s a helpful web site full of information about great scientists. It could be useful for litigation, and...
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Kirk Hartley
Dec 3, 20131 min
GE Healthcare Cell Imaging Competition
Amazing images of cells, and you can vote for a favorite. #Science
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Kirk Hartley
Nov 29, 20131 min
The Science of Marriage – More Scrutiny of Human Behavior
A new study suggests objective ways to measure the likelihood of a successful marriage. One of the points is that people may vocalize one...
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Kirk Hartley
Nov 29, 20131 min
“CAT scans for the earth” – New Applications for Science
"CAT scans for the earth." That’s the analogy used by researchers who devised new methods for figuring out where oil well waste waters...
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Kirk Hartley
Nov 25, 20131 min
Umbilical Cords, Stem Cells and Biobanks
A new research article indicates that stem cells from umbilical cords can be used to more rapidly generate skin cells for burn victims....
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