Locator: 49981SUSHI.
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Taking A Break
I got up at 2:00 a.m. to continue reading Walter Isaacson's Code Breaker, the biography of Jennifer Doudna and CRISPR.
I've been uploading posts that I did some weeks ago and left in draft stage. Going through them now, suggests it's a good idea to take a six-month break from x, CNBC (except Cramer's first ten minutes), do a lot of reading and lot of biking. Time to let some stuff ferment, gel.
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Personal Memories
So many people with whom my paths have crossed. Personal relationships that progressed from casual, unpredictable acquaintances to romantic liaisons.
Broad Institute
Wiki.
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard or the Broad Institute, is a biomedical and genomic research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; Cambridge, across the Charles River from Boston.
The institute is independently governed and supported as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research organization under the name Broad Institute Inc., and it partners with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, and the five Harvard teaching hospitals.
The Broad Institute evolved from a decade of research collaborations among MIT and Harvard scientists.
One cornerstone was the Center for Genome Research of the Whitehead Institute at MIT.
Founded in 1982, the Whitehead Institute became a major center for genomics and the Human Genome Project.
As early as 1995, scientists at the Whitehead started pilot projects in genomic medicine, forming an unofficial collaborative network among young scientists interested in genomic approaches to cancer and human genetics.
Another cornerstone was the Institute of Chemistry and Cell Biology established by Harvard Medical School in 1998 to pursue chemical genetics as an academic discipline. Its screening facility was one of the first high-throughput resources opened in an academic setting. It facilitated small molecule screening projects for more than 80 research groups worldwide.
To create a new organization that was open, collaborative, cross-disciplinary and able to organize projects at any scale, planning took place in 2002–2003 among philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad, MIT, the Whitehead Institute, Harvard and the Harvard-affiliated hospitals (in particular, the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Children's Hospital Boston, the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute and the Massachusetts General Hospital).
The Broads made a founding gift of $100 million and the Broad Institute was formally launched in May 2004. In November 2005, the Broads announced an additional $100 million gift to the institute. On September 4, 2008, the Broads announced an endowment of $400 million to make the Broad Institute a permanent establishment. In November 2013, they invested an additional $100 million to fund a second decade of research at the institute.
During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the Broad Institute ran laboratory tests for the virus for about 100 colleges and universities in the northeastern U.S. As of September 2020, the Broad was processing one out of every 20 COVID-19 tests in the nation.
Eli and Edythe Broad: wiki.
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Chatbots
For every hour I spend reading, blogging, "original research," I spend at least fifteen minutes with ChatGPT or Google Gemini asking them their thoughts on my blogging.
