Forbes profiled PacBio and its scientific founder, Steve Turner, last October (See: Gene Machine).
Among the more promising is Cyberonics' vagus-nerve stimulation approach, pioneered by Jacob Zabara, its scientific founder who's a retired Temple University physiologist.
Synthetic biology is such a small field right now that Keasling and Somerville were both initially involved with LS9, but left, leaving Harvard researcher George Church as the main scientific founder.
Among the luminaries who waltzed on stage for conversation were artificial intelligence godfather Marvin Minsky, Boston Scientific founder and billionaire John Abele, Oxbridgian longevity messiah Aubrey De Grey (who's got 536 friends on Facebook), Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard, sculptor Chuck Hoberman, Sims creator Will Wright, genomics pundit Juan Enriquez and computer scientist Sandy Pentland from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He is scientific co-founder of a company called Jounce Therapeutics Inc.
"We don't want to go there, " says John S. Patton, Nektar's founder and chief scientific officer.
The former host of the long-running PBS series "Scientific American Frontiers" is a founder and visiting professor of journalism at the Stony Brook University Center for Communicating Science, which has just been named in his honor.
The lineup of speakers will include molecular biology pioneer Leroy Hood, co-founder of 23andMe Anne Wojcicki, scientific revolutionary and provocateur Eric Schadt, health insurance data analytics innovator Tina Brown-Stevenson, and founding CEO of Sun Microsystems Vinod Khosla, to name a few.
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Among the luminaries who waltzed on stage for conversation were artificial intelligence godfather Marvin Minsky, Boston Scientific (nyse: BSX - news - people ) founder and billionaire John Abele, Oxbridgian longevity messiah Aubrey De Grey (who's got 536 friends on Facebook), Tesla Motors founder Martin Eberhard, sculptor Chuck Hoberman, Sims creator Will Wright, genomics pundit Juan Enriquez and computer scientist Sandy Pentland from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
If you are interested in insects as food, contact Alexandre Kournwsky, co-founder of Ambrosia or Wageningen University, which has a four year program designed to produce scientific and business research on the subject.
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