by Olwen Reina | May 17, 2017 | Trends
“Hello and welcome to our biobank! How can I help you today?” “I’d like 20 aliquots of blood from Caucasian males aged 30-40 years old who were exposed to asbestos.” “Coming right up! Would you like a list of blood types with that?” Human biobanks are like libraries...
by Olwen Reina | May 3, 2017 | Trends
When I was about 6 or 7 years old, I watched Stephen Hawking beat Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and an android in a game of poker. I’m not kidding, I really did! Of course it was on an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The android, Data, in an attempt to...