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They Are on Our Watch List, Too

Aug 06, 2008

O'Reilly Radar is keeping its eye on a few themes including synthetic biology, personal genomics, and everything neuro. On their watch lists are Drew Endy, George Church, and 23andMe. Deepak Singh wonders if these topics will be covered at this summer's Sci Foo Camp, which begins Friday.

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