Scientific MOOCs follower. Author of Airpocalypse, a techno-medical thriller (Out Summer 2017)


Welcome to the digital era of biology (and to this modest blog I started in early 2005).

To cure many diseases, like cancer or cystic fibrosis, we will need to target genes (mutations, for ex.), not organs! I am convinced that the future of replacement medicine (organ transplant) is genomics (the science of the human genome). In 10 years we will be replacing (modifying) genes; not organs!


Anticipating the $100 genome era and the P4™ medicine revolution. P4 Medicine (Predictive, Personalized, Preventive, & Participatory): Catalyzing a Revolution from Reactive to Proactive Medicine.


I am an early adopter of scientific MOOCs. I've earned myself four MIT digital diplomas: 7.00x, 7.28x1, 7.28.x2 and 7QBWx. Instructor of 7.00x: Eric Lander PhD.

Upcoming books: Airpocalypse, a medical thriller (action taking place in Beijing) 2017; Jesus CRISPR Superstar, a sci-fi -- French title: La Passion du CRISPR (2018).

I love Genomics. Would you rather donate your data, or... your vital organs? Imagine all the people sharing their data...

Audio files on this blog are Windows files ; if you have a Mac, you might want to use VLC (http://www.videolan.org) to read them.

Concernant les fichiers son ou audio (audio files) sur ce blog : ce sont des fichiers Windows ; pour les lire sur Mac, il faut les ouvrir avec VLC (http://www.videolan.org).


Ambitious European tech/science startup challenge! €100.000 to win to #buildTOMORROW

Savez vous combien de rendez vous patients médecins ne sont pas honorés ?

How successfully can a pharma giant sell a drug …described as ineffective by the scientists who developed it?

Meet Patrick Soon-Shiong, The Billionaire Reinventing Your Health

"While the most powerful man in Washington struggles to expand health insurance, the richest man in Los Angeles is methodically constructing a far more fundamental medical effort: a digitally enabled, science-driven, personalized health care system.
With Washington distracted by the insurance issue -- and with federal science and tech research hampered by 'sequester' budget cuts -- privately funded efforts such as Soon-Shiong’s are all the more crucial."

Edit the genome in all different ways and make cuts and changes in a quick way, with CRSPRs

Meet with one of those babies from
the CRSPR family...
"The ability to do this in mammalian cells is about 12 months old. It's only just been developed. And everybody I know is off using CRSPRs to go edit the genome in all different ways and make cuts and make changes, because it's incredibly quick. They're still working out all the details, how perfectly it has to match. A new paper just came out the other week about that. One I just saw was being submitted on the details of how to perfectly design CRSPRs and things like that. (...) People can now write their whole circuitry in DNA."" Eric Lander PhD, MIT Professor in Genomics.

From the "Genomics-it's-happening-right-under-our-feet" Department:

CRSPR (pronounce "crisper") means clustered regular short palindromatic repeats. And this is a Bacteria-Side Story...



==> http://www.broadinstitute.org/mpg/crispr_design/faq.php

Researchers develop 3D-printed, urine-powered robot heart

"On Dying After Your Time: Negative view on @Google v. death, but relevant to #longevity, not extension of #healthspan"

"The Unregulated Sperm Industry Inspired by @deliverymanfilm. Why don't sperm get sequenced?"

Embedded blood microfluidic sensor for continuous monitoring of drug levels