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The Lightbulb Has Gone Off

Sep 24, 2009

Forbes has come up with a list of revolutionaries that it says have "world-changing" ideas. On its list are: Michelle Khine, Jay Shendure, Stephen Turner, and others. Khine is lauded for her Shrinky-Dink-based microfluidic chips, which she has spun out into a company, Shrink Nanotechnologies; Shendure is included for his exome sequencing work; and Turner for the technology behind Pacific Biosciences.

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In Nature this week: VASA-seq approach to detect full transcriptome, analysis of viruses infecting Asgard archaea, and more.