A surprise at this year’s Thanksgiving dinner was that a majority of my friends (who do not work in biopharma) at the dinner table heard about the FDA warning letter issued to 23 & Me, a biotechnology company that offers a direct-to-consumer genome test kit. Almost all of them have used the kit and find […]
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Air Pollution in China Emphasizes the Complexity of Public Health in a Connected World
The past winter was a really bad one for people living in China–the smog in several major cities had reached record level. The issue has created several conversation peaks in China’s popular Twitter-like social network Weibo. Among the frustrated residents of cities affected the most were some of China’s super rich. Pan Shiyi, a billionaire in […]
Why Discussions around Whether to Patent Human Genes Matter to Everyone
NPR yesterday published an article reporting on a high profile case about patenting human genes, which generated a lot of chatter among both biotech business and science communities. Fortunately, it looks like as of now, I still don’t have to pay for genes I got from my mom and dad–the Supreme Court was skeptical about […]