The BIOS Initiative - open source biotechnology is born
...these new tools are provided under a new licensing paradigm that ensures that they are improved, shared and retained as a public resource." Today also sees the launch of BioForge (www.bioforge.net), an online collaborative research platform for biological innovation, developed in partnership with CollabNet I...Newly-discovered class of genes determines ?and restricts ?stem cell fate
...to have this dual role may represent a new general paradigm for developmental and stem-cell biology. "My idea is that this is a new family of genes--they can both determine the cell type, but also put the breaks on differentiation," says Epstein. "We have named them pangenes, after the Greek god Pan and Peter...