citizen science - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com When science has a story Thu, 27 Apr 2023 17:54:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 https://www.talksciencetome.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/cropped-tsm-logo-512-32x32.png citizen science - Talk Science To Me https://www.talksciencetome.com 32 32 159279938 $1,000 genome is here (at last) https://www.talksciencetome.com/2014/01/23/1000-genome-is-here-at-last/ Thu, 23 Jan 2014 16:38:43 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=1096 Last week, San Diego life sciences equipment developer, Illumina, announced the arrival of the $1,000 genome. According to their stats, running an entire human genome through one of their fast process HiSeqX 10 sequencing machines could spit out the US$1,000 result in a day. Although commercial companies already offer personal partial genome analysis for a… Read More »$1,000 genome is here (at last)

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]]> 1096 A smartphone-based mobile lab? https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/07/09/a-smartphone-based-mobile-lab/ Tue, 09 Jul 2013 21:36:05 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=805 Engineers at Cornell University presented work on smartphone-based medicine at CLEO: 2013 last month, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. Their creation is an external device that connects to a smartphone and can be used to diagnose Kaposi’s sarcoma and a slew of other serious conditions. Based on the press release, the smartphone itself isn’t doing… Read More »A smartphone-based mobile lab?

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]]> 4991 The uBiome controversy https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/03/14/the-ubiome-controversy/ Thu, 14 Mar 2013 17:54:40 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=556 uBiome is a cool project serving a widely recognized need: the mapping of the human microbiome. We’ve posted about uBiome on Twitter and Facebook, and have generally been pretty jazzed about the enterprise. Our enthusiasm took a major hit, however, when Melissa Bates and other bloggers began to voice serious concerns about the ethical oversight… Read More »The uBiome controversy

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]]> 556 Muses: DIY spectroscopy https://www.talksciencetome.com/2013/03/08/muses-diy-spectroscopy/ Fri, 08 Mar 2013 23:15:48 +0000 https://www.tstmarchive.talksciencetome.com/?p=544 The Public Lab is, I think, a generally stellar example of how to go about citizen science: they identify genuine, pressing scientific needs that are underserved by existing institutions, develop effective and practical ways of addressing them, and then deftly articulate both to the public. Those steps are difficult enough to get right individually, let… Read More »Muses: DIY spectroscopy

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